Joe Dassin : Polk Salad Annie

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Polk Salad Annie - 2nd version
Now for those o'you who've never been down to Tony Joe White country
Never been 'em South
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about it
So that you can understand just what it is I'm talkin' about, yeah
Down there they got a plant
It grows out in the woods and the fields
Grows on the upper side of the rocks and the trees
And everybody calls it polk salad
That's "polk" 'n' "salad"
Yeah, I used to know a girl who lived down there
She'd go out in the evenings an'... pick herself a little bit of it
Then she'd carry it out home 'n' cook it up for supper
Cause that's 'bout all they had to eat...
They did allright

I said, down in Louisiana
Where the alligators grow so mean
Lived a girl who, I swear to the world,
Made the alligators look tame
Polk salad Annie, polk salad Annie
Everybody said it was a shame
Because her mama was a-workin' on the chain gang
She was a mean vicious woman

Everyday 'fore suppertime she'd go down by the truck patch
And pick herself a mess o' polk salad
And carry it home in a tote-sack

Polk salad Annie, gators gotcher granny, hum chomp
Everybody said it was a shame
Because her momma was a-workin' on the chain gang
A wretched spiteful straight-razor tottin' woman
Now, gimme some polk salad, gimme salad...

Her Daddy was lazy and no 'count
He claimed he had a bad back
And all that her brothers was fit for
Was stealin' watermelons out of my truck patch

Polk salad Annie, gators gotcher granny, chomp
Everybody thought it was a shame
Because her momma was a-workin' on the chain gang, hey
Shuck a little polk salad
I need me a mess o'it
Suck a little humm ha
Mmmm mmm mmm mmm

Written by Tony Joe White
Performed and recorded by Joe Dassin in 1980
Remixed from the 1st version between fall 1979 and spring 1980
Arrangements and orchestration: Mike Utley
Engineering: Bernard Estardy
(p)1979, Rideau Rouge

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