XX   Elvis - Polk Salad Annie (live)

intro

Some of you all never been down South too much...
I' gonna tell you a little story ... so you'll understand where I'm talking about
....a-hum hum --talk talk talk  ...haha ...talk talk .............................
Down there we have a plant that grows out in the fields
and it looks something like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it ... Polk salad
Now 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 (hooooow)
how ..  how how  ... how ... yeah

Everyday before suppertime
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 (ho !)
'Gators got you granny (huuuuw)
Everybody said it was a shame
'Cause the mama was working on the chain-gang
how ..  how how  ... how ... yeah
Sock a little Polk salad to me
You know what meets a meal mention

chorus ..............(ho !)

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 (huuuuuuuw)
Everybody said it was a shame
For the mama was working on the chain-gang   (huuuuuuuw) .... yeah

You sock a little Polk salad to him
You know what I mean
O Baby  .............
instrumental
Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon
Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon
Sock a little Polk salad to him
You know what meets a meal mention
You know what meets a meal mention
You sock a little
You know what meets a meal mention
Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon
Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon
ending ...........................