Polk Salad Annie:Tony Joe White.
#8 in 1968.

#1.
EDown (022100@1)in Louisiana, where the alligators grow so mean.

There lived a girl, that I swear to the world,

made the alligators look tame.

CHORUS:
           A (x02220@1)               EPolk (022100@1)salad Annie, polk salad Annie.
     G (320003@1)                AEverybody (x02220@1)said it was a shame..
          G (320003@1)                           Acause (x02220@1)her Mama was working on the chain-gang.
EA (022100@1)mean, vicious woman.

#2.
EEveryday (022100@1)'fore supper time, she'd go down by the truck patch.

And pick her a mess o' Polk salad, and carry it home

in a tote-sack.

CHORUS:
           A (x02220@1)                     EPolk (022100@1)salad Annie..'gators got your Granny.
     G (320003@1)                A (x02220@1)              GEverybody (320003@1)said it was a shame..cause her Mama was 
              Aworkin (x02220@1)on the chain-gang..
  Ea (022100@1)wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman.

Lord have mercy.

(INTERLUDE:HARMONICA:)

#3.
EHer (022100@1)daddy was lazy and no 'count..claimed he had a bad back.

All her brothers were fit for, was stealin' watermelons out

of my truck patch.

CHORUS:
           A (x02220@1)                         EPolk (022100@1)salad Annie..the 'gators got your Granny.
     G (320003@1)                A (x02220@1)              GEverybody (320003@1)said it was a shame..cause her Mama was 
               A (x02220@1)         Eworking (022100@1)on the chain-gang.

OUTRO:
ESock (022100@1)a little polk-salad to me..you know I need a mean

mess of it..(Fade.)

A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.