Polk salad Annie
        (avec Tony Joe White)
        1984 (T. Joe White)


        If some of y'all never been down south too much
        I'm gonna tell you a little about this so that you'll understand what I'm talkin' about ...

        To understand what we talking about
        Down there we have a plant that grows like a turnip green
        And everybody calls it poke salad... poke salad
        Used to know a girl lived down there and she'd go out
        In the evenings and pick her 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 Lou'siana,
        Where the alligators grow so mean,
        There lived a girl that
        I swear to the world,
        Made the alligators look tame

        Poke Salad Annie
        Poke Salad Annie
        Everybody said it was a shame
        Cause her mama was a workin on the chain gang
        I mean, vicious

        Her daddy was lazy and no count
        Claimed he had a bad back
        And all her brothers were fit for
        Was stealin watermelons out of my truck patch

        Poke Salad Annie
        The gators got your granny

        Everybody said it was a shame
        Cause her mama was a workin on the chain gang
        A wretched, spiteful (?)

        Every day 'fore suppertime
        She'd go down by the truck patch
        And pick her a mess o' poke salad
        And carry it home in a tote sack

        Poke Salad Annie
        The gators got your granny

        Everybody said it was a shame
        Cause her Mama was a workin on the chain gang

        Sock a little poke salad to me
        You know I need me a mess of it

        Sock a little poke

        Sock a little ah ah ah
        Sock a little oh oh oh
        Sock a little ah ah ah ah ah ah

        Poke Salad Annie
        Poke Salad Annie
        The gators got your granny

        Poke Salad Annie
        Poke Salad Annie
        The gators got your granny



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