Joe Dassin "Polk Salad Annie" |
Now for those of you've never been down the Tony Joe White country Never been at South... I'll tell you a little bit about it so But you can't understand what is this I'm talking about, yeah Down there they got a plant grows out in the woods and the fields Grows up a long side the rocks and the trees And 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 herself a little bit of it... Carry it home and cook it for supper 'Cause that's about all they had to eat, they did all right. I said 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, polk salad Annie Everybody said it was a shame For the mama was working on the chain-gang She was a mean, vicious woman Everyday before suppertime, she'd go down by the truck patch And pick herself a mess of Polk salad and carry it home in a tote sack Polk salad Annie, 'gators got you granny Everybody said it was a shame Because her mama was working on the chain-gang Whoo, how wretched, despiteful, straight-razor totin' woman Now, give me some Polk salad. Give me some. 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 For once Polk salad Annie, 'gators got your granny Everybody thought it was a shame Because her mama was working on the chain-gang Sock a little Polk salad to him, you know what meets a meal mention You sock a little, hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah. Lyric from www.lyricmania.com |