Elvis Presley - Polk Salad Annie lyrics

Some of you all never been down South too much...

I` 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

For 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 carry 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

Whoo, how wretched, dispiteful,

straight-razor totin` woman,

Lord have mercy.

Sock a little Polk salad to him

Yeah, you know what, yeah, yeah

But 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 said it was a shame

For the 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

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 him

You know what meets a meal mention

Sock a little Polk salad to him

You know what meets a meal mention

Chinc, chinc, chinc,

chin, ling, ling ling