Chords for Tony Joe White
Tempo:
70.575 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
G
Bm
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Well now, right now I'd like you to welcome with me my Bayou country friend who turned his [E] poke salad into a whole bunch of steak and biscuits and greenbacks, Tony Joe White.
Yeah Tony!
How you doing?
Sadie Fox said there was 14 kinds of weeds you could eat.
What were?
[A] Poke salad.
[E]
I thought you were going to say grapevine.
No, you smoked grapevine.
I didn't smoke it, did you?
You know, my mama always said that if you was to eat it after a frost, it would molest you.
I was kidding, just letting you kid me.
The Indians used to make war paint out of it.
I used to mash them on my sister's back in a cotton patch.
Poke berries, I'm told.
Yeah, poke salad is my bread and meat, and it will be till I'm dead.
Now some of y'all never been down south too much.
We're going to tell you a little bit about it so you understand what we're talking about.
Down there we got a plant that grows out in the woods in a field.
Looks something like a turnip.
Except it ain't.
Now there back all the poke salad is.
Poke.
[Bm] [E] Salad.
Salad.
I used to know a girl that lived out there, John.
And she'd go out in the evenings and pick her mess up.
Carry it home and cook it for supper.
And as soon as it left over, she'd dry it out and smoke it.
And she felt all right up there.
It was like living down in the mountains.
And I heard an alligator go boom.
A little dog growled out [E] of the back.
Heard the alligator go boom.
[B] Hey, poke [A] salad, Annie.
Hey, poke [E] salad, Annie.
[G] Everybody said it was a [A] shame.
[G] Cause my mama wasn't working [A] on the chain gang.
[E] Me and Vic was pretty.
Simple.
Everyday around supper time.
She'd go down by the truck pass.
Pick her a mess of that poke salad.
[Em] Carry it home [D] in a tow sack.
Poke [A] salad, Annie.
Potatoes [E] got to go granted.
[Bm] Everybody said it was [A] a shame.
[G] Cause my mama wasn't working [A] on the chain gang.
She'd go down by the truck pass.
Carry it [E] home in a tow sack.
Her rich and low.
Pick her a mess of that poke salad.
Alright.
[A] [E]
Chomp, chomp, chomp.
Her daddy was a leasing low counter.
Plainly had a bad back.
Yeah, not all that her brothers was fit for.
Stealing watermelons out of my truck pass.
[A] Poke salad, Annie.
Potatoes [E] got to be granted.
[G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame.
[G] Cause my mama wasn't working [A] on the chain gang.
[E] Suck on a little poke salad.
Yeah, you know that I need me a mess of it.
Chomp, chomp, chomp.
[Em] Woo!
[Am] [N]
Yeah!
[Eb]
Yeah Tony!
How you doing?
Sadie Fox said there was 14 kinds of weeds you could eat.
What were?
[A] Poke salad.
[E]
I thought you were going to say grapevine.
No, you smoked grapevine.
I didn't smoke it, did you?
You know, my mama always said that if you was to eat it after a frost, it would molest you.
I was kidding, just letting you kid me.
The Indians used to make war paint out of it.
I used to mash them on my sister's back in a cotton patch.
Poke berries, I'm told.
Yeah, poke salad is my bread and meat, and it will be till I'm dead.
Now some of y'all never been down south too much.
We're going to tell you a little bit about it so you understand what we're talking about.
Down there we got a plant that grows out in the woods in a field.
Looks something like a turnip.
Except it ain't.
Now there back all the poke salad is.
Poke.
[Bm] [E] Salad.
Salad.
I used to know a girl that lived out there, John.
And she'd go out in the evenings and pick her mess up.
Carry it home and cook it for supper.
And as soon as it left over, she'd dry it out and smoke it.
And she felt all right up there.
It was like living down in the mountains.
And I heard an alligator go boom.
A little dog growled out [E] of the back.
Heard the alligator go boom.
[B] Hey, poke [A] salad, Annie.
Hey, poke [E] salad, Annie.
[G] Everybody said it was a [A] shame.
[G] Cause my mama wasn't working [A] on the chain gang.
[E] Me and Vic was pretty.
Simple.
Everyday around supper time.
She'd go down by the truck pass.
Pick her a mess of that poke salad.
[Em] Carry it home [D] in a tow sack.
Poke [A] salad, Annie.
Potatoes [E] got to go granted.
[Bm] Everybody said it was [A] a shame.
[G] Cause my mama wasn't working [A] on the chain gang.
She'd go down by the truck pass.
Carry it [E] home in a tow sack.
Her rich and low.
Pick her a mess of that poke salad.
Alright.
[A] [E]
Chomp, chomp, chomp.
Her daddy was a leasing low counter.
Plainly had a bad back.
Yeah, not all that her brothers was fit for.
Stealing watermelons out of my truck pass.
[A] Poke salad, Annie.
Potatoes [E] got to be granted.
[G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame.
[G] Cause my mama wasn't working [A] on the chain gang.
[E] Suck on a little poke salad.
Yeah, you know that I need me a mess of it.
Chomp, chomp, chomp.
[Em] Woo!
[Am] [N]
Yeah!
[Eb]
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_ _ Well now, right now I'd like you to welcome with me my Bayou country friend who turned his [E] poke salad into a whole bunch of steak and biscuits and greenbacks, Tony Joe White.
Yeah Tony!
How _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ you doing?
Sadie _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Fox said there was 14 kinds of weeds you could eat.
_ What were?
[A] Poke salad.
[E] _
I thought you were going to say grapevine.
No, you smoked grapevine.
I didn't smoke it, did you?
You _ _ know, my mama always said that if you was to eat it after a frost, it would molest you.
_ _ I was kidding, just letting you kid me.
The Indians used to make war paint out of it.
I used to mash them on my sister's back in a cotton patch.
Poke berries, I'm told.
_ Yeah, poke salad is my bread and meat, and it will be till I'm dead.
_ Now some of y'all never been down south too much.
We're going to tell you a little bit about it so you understand what we're talking about.
_ _ Down there we got a plant that grows out in the woods in a field.
Looks something like a turnip. _
Except it ain't.
Now there back all the poke salad is.
Poke. _
[Bm] _ [E] Salad.
_ Salad.
I used to know a girl that lived out there, John.
_ And she'd go out in the evenings and pick her mess up.
Carry it home and cook it for supper.
_ And as soon as it left over, she'd dry it out and smoke it.
_ And she felt all right up there. _
It was like living down in the mountains.
And I heard an alligator go boom.
A little dog growled out [E] of the back.
Heard the alligator go boom.
[B] Hey, poke [A] salad, Annie.
_ Hey, poke [E] salad, Annie. _
_ [G] Everybody said it was a [A] shame.
[G] Cause my mama wasn't working [A] on the chain gang.
[E] Me and Vic was pretty.
Simple. _
_ _ Everyday around supper time.
She'd go down by the truck pass.
Pick her a mess of that poke salad.
[Em] Carry it home [D] in a tow sack.
Poke [A] salad, Annie.
_ Potatoes [E] got to go granted. _
_ [Bm] Everybody said it was [A] a shame.
[G] Cause my mama wasn't working [A] on the chain gang.
She'd go down by the truck pass.
Carry it [E] home in a tow sack.
Her rich and low. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Pick her a mess of that poke salad.
Alright. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Chomp, chomp, chomp.
Her daddy was a leasing low counter.
_ Plainly had a bad back.
Yeah, not all that her brothers was fit for.
Stealing watermelons out of my truck pass.
[A] Poke salad, Annie.
_ Potatoes [E] got to be granted. _
_ [G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame.
[G] Cause my mama wasn't working [A] on the chain gang.
[E] _ _ Suck _ _ _ on a little poke salad.
Yeah, you know that I need me a mess of it.
Chomp, chomp, chomp. _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ Woo!
[Am] _ [N] _
Yeah!
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
Yeah Tony!
How _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ you doing?
Sadie _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Fox said there was 14 kinds of weeds you could eat.
_ What were?
[A] Poke salad.
[E] _
I thought you were going to say grapevine.
No, you smoked grapevine.
I didn't smoke it, did you?
You _ _ know, my mama always said that if you was to eat it after a frost, it would molest you.
_ _ I was kidding, just letting you kid me.
The Indians used to make war paint out of it.
I used to mash them on my sister's back in a cotton patch.
Poke berries, I'm told.
_ Yeah, poke salad is my bread and meat, and it will be till I'm dead.
_ Now some of y'all never been down south too much.
We're going to tell you a little bit about it so you understand what we're talking about.
_ _ Down there we got a plant that grows out in the woods in a field.
Looks something like a turnip. _
Except it ain't.
Now there back all the poke salad is.
Poke. _
[Bm] _ [E] Salad.
_ Salad.
I used to know a girl that lived out there, John.
_ And she'd go out in the evenings and pick her mess up.
Carry it home and cook it for supper.
_ And as soon as it left over, she'd dry it out and smoke it.
_ And she felt all right up there. _
It was like living down in the mountains.
And I heard an alligator go boom.
A little dog growled out [E] of the back.
Heard the alligator go boom.
[B] Hey, poke [A] salad, Annie.
_ Hey, poke [E] salad, Annie. _
_ [G] Everybody said it was a [A] shame.
[G] Cause my mama wasn't working [A] on the chain gang.
[E] Me and Vic was pretty.
Simple. _
_ _ Everyday around supper time.
She'd go down by the truck pass.
Pick her a mess of that poke salad.
[Em] Carry it home [D] in a tow sack.
Poke [A] salad, Annie.
_ Potatoes [E] got to go granted. _
_ [Bm] Everybody said it was [A] a shame.
[G] Cause my mama wasn't working [A] on the chain gang.
She'd go down by the truck pass.
Carry it [E] home in a tow sack.
Her rich and low. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Pick her a mess of that poke salad.
Alright. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Chomp, chomp, chomp.
Her daddy was a leasing low counter.
_ Plainly had a bad back.
Yeah, not all that her brothers was fit for.
Stealing watermelons out of my truck pass.
[A] Poke salad, Annie.
_ Potatoes [E] got to be granted. _
_ [G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame.
[G] Cause my mama wasn't working [A] on the chain gang.
[E] _ _ Suck _ _ _ on a little poke salad.
Yeah, you know that I need me a mess of it.
Chomp, chomp, chomp. _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ Woo!
[Am] _ [N] _
Yeah!
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _