Polk Salad Annie (film mix) - Elvis Presley

Composed by：Tony Joe White

What are you lookin' at back there

Some of y'all never been down south too much

I'm gonna tell you a little story so's you'll understand what I'm talkin' about

Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields

And it looks somethin' like a turnip green

And everybody calls it polk salad

Now that's polk salad ho

Anyway I used to know a girl who lived down there

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 alright

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

'Cause her mama was a-workin' on the chain gang

A mean vicious

Straight-razor-totin' woman

Lord have mercy

Every day before 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

Gators got your granny

Everybody said it was a shame

'Cause her mama was a-workin' on the chain gang

Sock a little polk salad

Oh

Her daddy was a lazy 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

Gators got your granny

Everybody said it was a shame

'Cause her mama was a-workin' on the chain gang

Sock a little polk salad to me

You know I need a

Sock a little

Yeah

You're right you're right

Sock a little polk salad to me

You know I need a real mess of it

Sock a little

Know I need a real mess of it

Sock a little sock a

Thank you

Thank you very much