Polk Salad Annie:Tony Joe White. #8 in 1968. #1.

^EDown in Louisiana, where the alligators grow so mean. There lived a girl, that I swear to the world,

made the alligators look tame. CHORUS:

Polk salad ^AAnnie, polk salad ^EAnnie. Every^Gbody said it was a ^Ashame.. cause her ^GMama was working on the chain-^Agang. ^EA mean, vicious woman.

#2.

^EEveryday 'fore supper time, she'd go down by the truck patch. And pick her a mess o' Polk salad, and carry it home

in a tote-sack. CHORUS:

Polk salad ^AAnnie..'gators got your ^EGranny. Every^Gbody said it was a ^Ashame..cause her ^GMama was workin on the ^Achain-gang.. a ^Ewretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman.

Lord have mercy. (INTERLUDE:HARMONICA:) #3.

^EHer daddy was lazy and no 'count..claimed he had a bad back. All her brothers were fit for, was stealin' watermelons out

of my truck patch. CHORUS:

Polk salad ^AAnnie..the 'gators got your ^EGranny. Every^Gbody said it was a ^Ashame..cause her ^GMama was working on the ^Achain-gang. ^E

OUTRO:

^ESock a little polk-salad to me..you know I need a mean mess of it..(Fade.)

A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.

Tony Joe White - Polk salad annie