Polk Salad Annie Chords by Tom Jones

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_ _ _ _ _ Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it, that's it, that's it right there. _ _
Some of y'all ain't never been down south too much, I'm gonna [Eb] tell you a little bit
[Bb] about this, y'all understand what I'm talking about.
_ Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods in the fields.
_ [Eb] Looks something [Ab] like a [Bb] turnip green.
_ Everybody calls it [Eb] poke [Bb] salad. _
_ _ _ [D] Poke [Eb] _ [Em] _ [B] _
_ [Bb] salad.
_ _ We got it now.
_ Used to know a girl lived down there.
She'd go out in the evening, pick a mess of it, get home and cook herself.
_ Because that's about all they had to eat.
_ But they did all right. _
[Ab] _ _ [Bb] Down in Louisiana, _ _ where the alligators go, saw me. _
_ There lived [Fm] a [A] girl [Bb] and I swear to the [Gm] world.
She made the alligators look [Abm] tame.
Poke [Eb] salad, Annie.
_ Woo-hoo!
Poke [Bb] salad, Annie. _ _ _ _
_ [Db] Everybody said it was [Eb] shame.
_ [Db] Because her mama wasn't working [Eb] on a chain band.
_ [Bb] _ A mean, vicious woman.
_ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ You see, _ _ every day before supper time,
she'd go down by the truck patch and pick a [Cm] mess [Bb] of poke salad
_ and carry it home [A] in a tow sack.
Poke [Eb] salad, Annie.
_ You know, alligators got the [Bb] credit.
_ Huh. _ _
_ [Db] Everybody said it was [Eb] shame.
_ [Db] Because her mama wasn't working [Eb] on a chain band.
_ [Bb] A wretched, spiteful, [Bbm] straight-raded, toting [Bb] woman.
Come on, man.
Hit me [G] with it now.
_ [Bb] _ _ Yeah. _ _
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[Gb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ Woo _ -hoo.
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[Gm] _ [F] _ _ _ [Cm] Oh, [Eb] Lord. _
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_ Her daddy was lazy and no count.
He claimed to have a bad back.
_ _ All her brothers were fit for
_ _ stealing watermelons [Eb] out of my [F] truck patch.
Poke [Eb] salad, Annie.
You know, _ alligators got [Bb] the credit.
_ Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp.
[Db] Everybody said it was [Eb] shame.
_ [Db] Because her mama wasn't working [Eb] on a chain band.
You know that's right, [Bb] Annie, don't you?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Yeah.
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Suck your [Bb] little poke salad, tell me. _
You know I need a meatless salad.
Uh-huh.
Got to have some food.
_ _ Yeah, I got to have some food.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah.
_ Come on, baby. _
Wow.
That's right.
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