"Some o' y'all never been down south too much
Some o' y'all never been down south too
I wanna tell you a little story
So you'll understand what 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 who 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
There lived a girl that I swear to the world
Made the alligators looked tame
Polk salad Annie
'Gators got your granny - chomp, chomp
Everybody said it was a shame
'Cause her mama was a-working on a chain gang
A mean, viscious woman, hup, hup
Every day before supper time
She'd go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess o' polk salad
And carry it home in a tow sack
Polk salad Annie
'Gators got your granny - chomp, chomp
Everybody said it was a shame
'Cause her mama was a-working on a chain gang
Whooo, a wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman, (yea)
Lord have mercy
You sock a little polk salad to me
You know what I need yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Her daddy was lazy and a no-account
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 chomp chomp
Ev'rybody said it was a shame
'Cause her mama was a-working on the chain gang
(Whoooo)
You sock a little polk salad to me
I need me a mess of it
Sock a little
(Hey, hey, hey, yeah, hey, yeah)
(Chica bon chica bon, chica bon bon bon bon bon bon bon
Chica bon chica bon, chica bon bon bon bon bon bon bon)
Sock a little polk salad to me
You know I need me a mess of it
Sock a little polk salad
You know I need me a mess of it
Ching, ching, ching, ching
Ching, ching, ching, ching, a-ling, a-ling, a-ling
Ching, ching, ching, ching, a-ling, a-ling, a-ling
Ching, ching, ching, ching, a-ling, a-ling, a-ling
Ching, ching, ching, ching, a-ling, a-ling, a-ling