Polk Salad Annie - Elvis Live Version

Some of you all never been down south too much

Some of you all never down south too...

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 and 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-a-working on the chain-gang

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

How wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman

Lord have mercy

Sock a little Polk salad to him

But daddy was a lazy and 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-a-working on the chain-gang

You sock a little Polk salad to him

You know what meets a meal...

You sock a little

(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 (chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)

You know what meets a meal mention (chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)

Sock a little Polk salad to him (chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)

You know what meets a meal... (chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)

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Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin, ling, ling ling (chic a bon bon bon bon)

Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin (chic a bon, chic a bon)

Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin (chic a bon bon bon bon)

Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin (chic a bon, chic a bon)

Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin (chic a bon bon bon bon)

Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin (Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)

(Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)

(Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)

(Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon)

(Chic a bon, chic a bon)