If some of you all never been down south too much
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this
So that you'll understand what I'm talkin' about

Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods
And in the fields looks somethin' like a turnip green
And everybody calls it polk salad polk salad

Used to know a girl lived down there and she'd go out in the evenings
And pick her 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
There lived a girl that I swear to the world make the alligators look tame

Plk salad Annie polk salad Annie
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her mama was a workin' on the chain gang uh uh uh
A mean vicious woman

Every day fore suppertime she'd go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess of polk salad and carry it home in a tow sack

Polk salad Annie that gators got you granny
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her mama was a workin' on the chain gang uh uh uh
A wretched spiteful straight razor tottin' woman Lord have mercy
Pick a mess of it son now git it

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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 that gators got you granny
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her mama was a workin' on the chain gang uh uh uh
Sock a little polk salad to me sock a little polk salad to me
You know I need me a mess of it son git it git it git it