Polk Salad Annie Chords & Tabs
Polk Salad Annie:Tony Joe White.
#8 in 1968.
#1.
E
Down in Louisiana, where the alligators grow so mean.
There lived a girl, that I swear to the world,
made the alligators look tame.
CHORUS:
A E
Polk salad Annie, polk salad Annie.
G A
Everybody said it was a shame..
G A
cause her Mama was working on the chain-gang.
E
A mean, vicious woman.
#2.
E
Everyday 'fore supper time, she'd go down by the truck patch.
And pick her a mess o' Polk salad, and carry it home
in a tote-sack.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/tony_joe_white/polk_salad_annie_crd_ver_2.html ]
CHORUS:
A E
Polk salad Annie..'gators got your Granny.
G A G
Everybody said it was a shame..cause her Mama was
A
workin on the chain-gang..
E
a wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman.
Lord have mercy.
(INTERLUDE:HARMONICA:)
#3.
E
Her daddy was lazy and no 'count..claimed he had a bad back.
All her brothers were fit for, was stealin' watermelons out
of my truck patch.
CHORUS:
A E
Polk salad Annie..the 'gators got your Granny.
G A G
Everybody said it was a shame..cause her Mama was
A E
working on the chain-gang.
OUTRO:
E
Sock a little polk-salad to me..you know I need a mean
mess of it..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.