Chords for Dan Aykroyd & Jim Belushi - Polk salad Annie
Tempo:
70.55 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
G
Em
Bb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[E]
[A] [E] Now listen, [Gb] if some of [E] y'all never been down south too much, I'm gonna tell you a little
bit [Em] about this so that you'll understand what I'm talking about.
[E] Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods in the fields.
Looks something like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it poke salad there.
Poke [Bb] [B] salad.
[Em] [E]
Well I used to know a girl that lived down there and she'd go out in the evenings and
pick a mess of it, carry it home and cook it for supper, because that's about all they
had to eat.
But they did all right.
Down in Louisiana, where the alligators roamed for me, there lived a girl out of square two
in the woods.
She's an alligator, look, damn.
[G] [A] Salad Annie.
[E] Salad Annie.
[G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame, [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her chain chain.
[E] Yeah.
[A] [E] Mean, vicious [A] woman.
[E] [Em] [E]
Every day before supper time, she'd go down by the truck and pick her a mess of poke salad
and carry it home in a tote [G] sack.
[A] Salad Annie.
She [E] was such a pretty.
[G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame, [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her chain chain. Salad Annie.
[E] [A] Salad Annie.
[E] She was a [A] wretched, [E] spiteful, straight-raised, ill-tempered woman.
Lord have mercy.
Pick a mess of it.
Her daddy was lazy and old-cow.
She had a bad back.
And all her brothers worked it for her.
Peeling watermelons out of [Bb] my truck.
[G] [A] Salad Annie.
Alligators [E] got you, Annie.
[G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame, [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her chain chain. Salad Annie.
[E]
[Bm] Suck [E] a little poke salad to me.
You know I need a mean mess of it.
Come on now.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Yeah.
What a story of poke salad.
[Em] Annie.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
[E] Ha ha.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
[A] [E] Now listen, [Gb] if some of [E] y'all never been down south too much, I'm gonna tell you a little
bit [Em] about this so that you'll understand what I'm talking about.
[E] Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods in the fields.
Looks something like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it poke salad there.
Poke [Bb] [B] salad.
[Em] [E]
Well I used to know a girl that lived down there and she'd go out in the evenings and
pick a mess of it, carry it home and cook it for supper, because that's about all they
had to eat.
But they did all right.
Down in Louisiana, where the alligators roamed for me, there lived a girl out of square two
in the woods.
She's an alligator, look, damn.
[G] [A] Salad Annie.
[E] Salad Annie.
[G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame, [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her chain chain.
[E] Yeah.
[A] [E] Mean, vicious [A] woman.
[E] [Em] [E]
Every day before supper time, she'd go down by the truck and pick her a mess of poke salad
and carry it home in a tote [G] sack.
[A] Salad Annie.
She [E] was such a pretty.
[G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame, [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her chain chain. Salad Annie.
[E] [A] Salad Annie.
[E] She was a [A] wretched, [E] spiteful, straight-raised, ill-tempered woman.
Lord have mercy.
Pick a mess of it.
Her daddy was lazy and old-cow.
She had a bad back.
And all her brothers worked it for her.
Peeling watermelons out of [Bb] my truck.
[G] [A] Salad Annie.
Alligators [E] got you, Annie.
[G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame, [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her chain chain. Salad Annie.
[E]
[Bm] Suck [E] a little poke salad to me.
You know I need a mean mess of it.
Come on now.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Yeah.
What a story of poke salad.
[Em] Annie.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
[E] Ha ha.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Key:
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A
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Em
Bb
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [E] Now listen, [Gb] if some of [E] y'all never been down south too much, I'm gonna tell you a little
bit [Em] about this so that you'll understand what I'm talking about.
[E] Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods in the fields.
Looks something like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it poke salad there.
Poke [Bb] [B] salad.
[Em] _ [E] _ _
_ Well I used to know a girl that lived down there and she'd go out in the evenings and
pick a mess of it, carry it home and cook it for supper, because that's about all they
had to eat.
But they did all right.
_ Down in Louisiana, _ where the alligators roamed for me, there lived a girl out of square two
in the woods.
She's an alligator, look, damn.
[G] [A] Salad Annie.
_ _ [E] Salad Annie. _
_ [G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame, [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her chain chain.
[E] _ Yeah.
[A] [E] Mean, vicious [A] woman.
[E] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ Every day before supper time, she'd go down by the truck and pick her a mess of poke salad
and carry it home in a tote [G] sack.
[A] Salad Annie.
She [E] was such a pretty. _
_ [G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame, [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her chain chain. Salad Annie.
[E] _ _ [A] Salad Annie.
[E] She was a [A] wretched, [E] spiteful, straight-raised, ill-tempered woman.
_ Lord have mercy.
Pick a mess of it. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Her daddy was lazy and old-cow.
She had a bad back.
And all her brothers worked it for her.
Peeling watermelons out of [Bb] my truck.
[G] [A] Salad Annie. _
Alligators [E] got you, Annie.
_ _ [G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame, [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her chain chain. Salad Annie.
[E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] Suck [E] a little poke salad to me.
You know I need a mean mess of it.
Come on now.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Yeah.
What a story of poke salad. _
[Em] Annie.
_ _ _ Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
[E] Ha ha.
_ Ha ha ha ha ha. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [E] Now listen, [Gb] if some of [E] y'all never been down south too much, I'm gonna tell you a little
bit [Em] about this so that you'll understand what I'm talking about.
[E] Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods in the fields.
Looks something like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it poke salad there.
Poke [Bb] [B] salad.
[Em] _ [E] _ _
_ Well I used to know a girl that lived down there and she'd go out in the evenings and
pick a mess of it, carry it home and cook it for supper, because that's about all they
had to eat.
But they did all right.
_ Down in Louisiana, _ where the alligators roamed for me, there lived a girl out of square two
in the woods.
She's an alligator, look, damn.
[G] [A] Salad Annie.
_ _ [E] Salad Annie. _
_ [G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame, [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her chain chain.
[E] _ Yeah.
[A] [E] Mean, vicious [A] woman.
[E] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ Every day before supper time, she'd go down by the truck and pick her a mess of poke salad
and carry it home in a tote [G] sack.
[A] Salad Annie.
She [E] was such a pretty. _
_ [G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame, [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her chain chain. Salad Annie.
[E] _ _ [A] Salad Annie.
[E] She was a [A] wretched, [E] spiteful, straight-raised, ill-tempered woman.
_ Lord have mercy.
Pick a mess of it. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Her daddy was lazy and old-cow.
She had a bad back.
And all her brothers worked it for her.
Peeling watermelons out of [Bb] my truck.
[G] [A] Salad Annie. _
Alligators [E] got you, Annie.
_ _ [G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame, [G] because her mama wasn't working [A] on her chain chain. Salad Annie.
[E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] Suck [E] a little poke salad to me.
You know I need a mean mess of it.
Come on now.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Yeah.
What a story of poke salad. _
[Em] Annie.
_ _ _ Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
[E] Ha ha.
_ Ha ha ha ha ha. _
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