DESCRIPTION:
Polk Salad Annie from That's The Way It Is DVD. Elvis live recorded February 18, 1970; -The International Hotel -Las Vegas
Written by: Tony Joe White.Originally recorded by Tony Joe White in 1968
Lyrics: Some of you all never been down South too much...
I'm gonna tell you a little story, so you'll understand where I'm talking about
Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields,
and it looks something like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it Polk salad. Now that's Polk salad.
Used to know a girl that lived down there and
she'd go out in the evenings to pick a mess of it...
Carry it home and cook it for supper, 'cause that's about all they had to eat,
But they did all right.

Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean
Lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame
Polk salad Annie, 'gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame 'cause the mama was working on the chain-gang
What a mean, vicious woman

Everyday before suppertime she'd go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess of Polk salad and carried it home in a tote sack
Polk salad Annie, 'gators got you granny
Everybody said it was a shame 'cause the mama was working on the chain-gang
How wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman,
Lord have mercy

Her daddy was a lazy and a no-count, claimed he had a bad back
All her brothers were fit for was stealing watermelons out of my truck patch
Polk salad Annie, 'gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame 'cause the mama was working on the chain-gang

Sock a little Polk salad to me
You know I need a meal miss
You sock a little
(Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon
Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)
Sock a little Polk salad to me
You know I need a meal miss
Sock a little Polk salad to me
You know I need a meal
Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin, ling, ling ling...