The BossHoss – Polk Salad Annie (Guitar)

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If some of y'all never been down South too much

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I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this, so that

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You'll understand what I'm talking about

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Down there we have a plant that grows out

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In the woods and the fields, looks something like a turnip green

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Everybody calls it Polk salad. I said Polk salad

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Used to know a girl that lived down there and she'd go out in the evenings and pick a mess of it

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Carry it home and cook it for supper, 'cause that's about all they hat to eat, but they did all right

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Down in Louisiana

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Where the alligators grow so mean

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There lived a girl that I sear to the world

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Made the alligators look tame

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Polk salad Annie. Polk salad Annie

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Everybody said it was a shame

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Cause her mama was working on the chain-gang

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(A mean, vicious woman)

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Everyday 'fore supper time

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She'd go down by the truck patch

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And pick her a mess o'Polk salad

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And carry it home in a tote sack

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Polk salad Annie, 'gators got you granny

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Everybody said it was a shame

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Cause her mama was working on the chain-gang

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(A wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin'

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Woman, Lord have mercy. Pick a mess of it)

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Her daddy was lazy and no count

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Claimed he had a bad black

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All her brothers were fit for was stealin'

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Watermelons out of my truck patch

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Polk salad Annie, 'gators got you granny

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Everybody said it was a shame

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Cause her mama was working on the chain-gang