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Polk Salad Annie - Elvis Presley

Some of you all have 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

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

Everyday before supper time

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

Sock a little Polk salad to him

You know what I mean

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