Polk Salad Annie Lyrics

Tell y'all a little story about a girl out in Louisiana.
She used to go out in a turnip patch and pick somethin' kinda' like a turnip green.
Something called Polk salad.
Something like this.
Down in Louisiana
Where the alligators grow so mean
There lived a girl that I swear to the world
Made the alligators look tame

Polk salad Annie
Polk salad Annie
Oh, everybody said it was a shame
Cause her mama was working on the chain-gang
Yes she was
(a mean, vicious woman)

Everyday 'fore supper time
She'd head out to the truck patch
Pick her a mess o' Polk salad
And carry it home in a tote sack
Polk salad Annie
Gators got you granny
(chomp, chomp)
Everybody said it was a shame
'Cause her mama was aworkin' on the chain-gang
Yes she was
Come on Polk Salad
Texacan style, let's go

Her 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
Polk salad Annie
Oh the gators got your granny
Oh, everybody said it was a shame
Cause her mama was a working' on the chain gang
Yes she was
Come on mama, yeah
Everybody said it was a shame
'Cause her mama was aworkin' on the chain-gang
Yes she was
Please naw mama
Awah Annie
Come on baby