[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Some of you all never been down South too much
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I'm going to tell you a little story, so you'll understand where I'm talking about
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Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields
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And it looks something like a turnip green
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Everybody calls it Polk salad. Now that's Polk salad
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Used to know a girl that lived down there and
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She'd go out in the evenings to pick a mess of it
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Carry it home and cook it for supper, because that's about all they had to eat
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But they did all right
[Pre-Chorus]
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Down in Louisiana
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Where the alligators grow so mean
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Lived a girl that I swear to the world
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Made the alligators look tame
[Chorus]
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Polk salad Annie
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Alligators got your granny
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Everybody said it was a shame
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For the mama was working on the chain-gang
What a mean, vicious woman
[Verse 2]
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Everyday before suppertime
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She'd go down by the truck patch
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And pick her a mess of Polk salad
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And carry it home in a tote sack
[Chorus]
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Polk salad Annie
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Alligators got you granny
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Everybody said it was a shame
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Because the mama was working on the chain-gang
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Whoo, how wretched, despiteful, straight-razor toting woman
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Lord have mercy
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Sock a little Polk salad to him
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Yeah, you know what, yeah, yeah
[Verse 3]
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But daddy was a lazy and a no-count
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Claimed he had a bad back
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All her brothers were fit for
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Was stealing watermelons out of my truck
[Chorus]
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Polk salad Annie
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Alligators got you granny
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Everybody said it was a shame
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Because the mama was working on the chain-gang
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Whoo, how wretched, despiteful, straight-razor toting woman
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Lord have mercy
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Sock a little Polk salad to him
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Yeah, you know what, yeah, yeah
[Verse 4]
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Sock a little Polk salad to him
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You know what meets a meal mention
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You sock a little
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Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah
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Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon
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Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon
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Sock a little Polk salad to him
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You know what meets a meal mention
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Sock a little Polk salad to him
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You know what meets a meal mention
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Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin, ling, ling ling