If some of yall never been down South too much Im gonna tell you a little bit about this, so that Youll understand what Im talking about Down there we have a plant that grows out In the woods and the fields, looks somethinglike A turnip green Everybody calls it Polk salad. Polk salad Used to know a girl that lived down there and Shed go out in the evenings and pick a mess of it Carry it home and cook it for supper, cause thats About all they hat to eat, but they did all right Down in Louisiana Where the alligators grow so mean There lived a girl that I sear to the world Made the alligators look tame Ref Polk salad Annie. Polk salad Annie Everybody said it was a shame Cause her mama was working on the chaingang a mean, vicious woman Everyday fore supper time Shed go down by the truck patch And pick her a mess oPolk salad And carry it home in a tote sack Ref Polk salad Annie Gators got you granny Everybody said it was a shame Cause her mama was working on the chaingang a wretched, spiteful, straightrazor totin Woman, Lord have mercy. Pick a mess of it Her daddy was lazy and no count Claimed he had a bad black All her brothers were fit for was stealin Watermelons out of my truck patch Ref Polk salad Annie Gators got you granny Everybody said it was a shame Cause her mama was working on the chaingang
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