Polk Salad Annie Joe Dassin

Now for those of you
Who never been down to Tony Joe White country
Never been south
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this so that you'll
Understand what it is I'm talkin' about ... yeah

Down there we got a plant
That grows out in the woods
And in the field
Grows up the long side on the rocks
In the trees
And everybody calls it polk salad
That's polk salad
And I used to know a girl lived down there
She'd go out in the evenings
And pick herself a little bit of it
And she carried it home
And cook it for supper
Cause that's about all they had to eat
But they did all right

I said down in Lou'siana
Where the alligators grow so mean
Lived a girl who swear to the world
Made the alligators look tame
Polk Salad Annie, Polk Salad Annie
Everybody said it was a shame
Because her mama was a workin on the chain gang
She was a mean, vicious woman