Chords for Austin City Limits 608: Tony Joe White - "Polk Salad Annie"

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_ _ I'm going _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to tell you about it one more time _ so _ _ _ that you understand what we're talking about. _
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_ _ Down there we got a plant.
It _ _ _ _ looks something like a turnip green, _ _ _ except it ain't _ _ _ _ because _ _ _ everybody calls it poke celery. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ That's poke _ [Bb] _ celery.
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Now you know a girl lived down there. _ _ _
_ _ _ She'd go out in the evenings and pick her a little bit of it, _ _ _ _ _ _ carry it home and cook
it for supper. _
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[E] if she had any left over, _ _ _ she'd hang it out on the clothesline _ and dry it out _ _ and smoke it. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ But she did all right, y'all.
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_ _ _ _ I said down in Louisiana _ _ where the alligator girls so mean, _ _ they left a girl that was left
to the world.
Made the alligator look tame, poke [A] celery. _
_ _ _ _ [E] Poke celery. _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame _ [G] because her mama wasn't working [E] on her tank. _ _ _
A mean, vicious [A] woman.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Every day for supper time, _ go down by the truck patch, _ pick her up as a poke celery,
_ carry it home in her toes, poke [A] celery. _
_ _ _ The gator [E] got to granny's home.
_ _ _ [G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame _ because her mama wasn't working on her tank.
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A rich head, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ spiteful, _ [A] _ [E] _ _
_ straight razor-toed woman. _ _
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Louisiana, no count.
_ _ Claimed he had a bad back.
_ _ And all her brothers were fit for _ stealing watermelons out of my truck, [A] poke celery. _
_ _ _ The gator [E] got to granny's.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame _ [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her [E] tank. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Suck a little poke celery through me.
_ You ain't eating me, I'm missing it.
_ _ Suck a little, _ _ suck _ a little, _ _ _ _ _ suck a little, _ _ _ _ _ suck a little, _ _ [Em] _ _ _ poke celery at it. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Gator got to only _ granny's.
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_ _ _ _ _ Poke celery at it. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Choke. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Em] Thank y'all.
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