Polk Salad Annie (feat. Joe Louis Walker & Mike Zito)

Some of y'all never been down south too much

But tell you little bit about this

So that you understand what I'm talkin'

Down there, we have a plant

Grows out in the woods

In the field, looks something like a turnip

Everybody calls it polk salad

Used to know a girl who lived down there

She'd go out in the evenings and pick her a mess of it

Carry it home, cook it for supper

'Cause that's about all they had to eat

They did alright

Down in Louisiana

Where the alligators grow so mean

There lived a girl, I swear to the world

Made the alligators look tame

Polk salad Annie

The gator's got your granny

Everybody said it was a shame

Because her mama was workin' on a chain gang

She was a mean, vicious woman

Every day before supper time

She'd go down to the truck patch

And pick her a mess of polk salad

And carry it home in a tote sack

Polk salad Annie

The gator's got your granny

Everybody says it was a shame

Because her mama was workin' on a chain gang

A wretched, spiteful, straight razor totin' kind of woman

Lord, have mercy

Pick a mess of it

Her daddy was lazy and no 'count

He claimed he had a bad back

All her brothers were fit for

Was stealin' watermelons outta my truck

That polk salad Annie

The gator's got your granny

Everybody said it was a shame

Because her mama was workin' on a chain gang

Yeah

Sock a little polk salad to me

You know I mean polk salad

I need a little polk salad, baby