Chords for Polk Salad Annie

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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] Some of y'all never been down south too [Em] much.
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this
so that you understand what [F#] I'm talking [E] about.
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_ _ Down there we have a plant that grows
out in the woods in the fields.
Looks something like a turnip green. _
Everybody [Em] calls it the poke salad.
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Poke _ [A] _ [A#] [B] salad.
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Used to know a girl lived down there
and she'd go out in the evenings
and take her a mess of it,
_ carry it home and cook it for [A] supper. _
[E] _ Cause that's about all they had to eat. _ _
_ _ They did all right. _ _ _
_ Now down in Louisiana _
_ where the alligators grow so mean.
_ _ There lived a girl that I swear to the world
made [C#m] the alligators [Bm] look [G#m] tame.
[F#m] Poke [A] salad Annie. _ _
_ _ Poke salad [E] Annie. _ _
_ [A] _ [E] _ _ [G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame
_ [G] cause her mama wasn't working on [A] a chain gang.
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I mean, this is small.
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Every day for supper time
she'd go down by the truck patch
and take her mess of poke salad _
and carry [C#m] it home [E] in a tow sack.
[F#m] Poke [A] salad Annie. _ _ _
The alligators [E] got you, granny.
Chomp, chomp, chomp.
_ [G] Everybody said it was a [A]
shame
_ [G] cause her mama wasn't working [A] on a chain gang.
[E] _ _ _ A wretched spiteful, [A] _ [D] straight razor [A] toed woman.
_ [E] _ [A] _ [E] Lord, I must have picked my ass up. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[E] Her _ daddy was lazy and no count
_ _ claimed he had a bad back.
_ _ _ _ All her brothers were fit for
_ stealing [C#m] watermelons out of [G#m] my truck [F#m] patch.
Poke [A] salad Annie. _
_ _ _ The alligators got [E] you, granny. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame
_ cause [G] her mama wasn't working [A] on a chain gang.
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[E] _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ Suck a little poke salad too.
_ _ You know I need me a mess of it. _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ Got _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ the hair on me.
I _ _ ate it up.
_ I ate it up. _
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