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
Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods and 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
What a mean, vicious woman


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

'Gators got you granny
Everybody said it was a shame
'Cause the mama was working on the chain-gang

Whoo, how wretched, dispiteful, straight-razor totin' woman,
Lord have mercy.


Sock a little Polk salad to him
Yeah, you know what, yeah, yeah


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
Everybody said it was a shame
For the mama was working on the chain-gang


Sock a little Polk salad to him
You know what meets a meal mention

You sock a little
Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah
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

Sock a little Polk salad to him
You know what meets a meal mention
Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin, ling, ling ling