Joe Dassin : Polk Salad Annie

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Polk Salad Annie - 1st version
For those o'you who've never been down to Tony Joe White country
Never been South
I'm gonna tell you something about it
So you can understand what I'm talkin' about
Down there we got a plant
Grows out in the woods and the fields
Grows on the rocks and the trees
And everybody calls it polk salad
That's "polk" "salad"
I used to know a girl who lived down there
She'd go out in the evenings
And pick herself a little bit of it
Then she'd carry it home and cook it up for supper
Cause that's 'bout all they had to eat
But they did alright

I said, down in Louisiana
Where all 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 momma was a-workin' on the chain gang
And man, she was a mean vicious woman

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 got your granny, chomp hump
An' everybody said it was a shame
Because her momma was a-workin' on the chain gang
A wretched spiteful straight-razor tottin' woman
Now give me some polk salad
Gimme salad!

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 got your granny, chomp chomp
An' everybody said it was a shame
Because her momma was a-workin' on the chain gang
Thisa a little huh huh mmm
Mmmm mmm mmm mmmrroar

Written by Tony Joe White in 1971
Performed and recorded by Joe Dassin in August 1979
This is the 1st version of "Polk Salad Annie"
which appeared on Blue Country LP in 1979
(p)1979, Rideau rouge

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