Chords for Tony Joe White
Tempo:
70.575 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
G
Bm
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Jam Along & Learn...
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.
you doing?
Fox said there was 14 kinds of weeds you could eat.
I thought you were going to say grapevine.
you?
said that if you was to eat it after a frost, it would molest you.
I was kidding, just letting you kid me.
war paint out of it.
you doing?
Fox said there was 14 kinds of weeds you could eat.
I thought you were going to say grapevine.
you?
said that if you was to eat it after a frost, it would molest you.
I was kidding, just letting you kid me.
war paint out of it.
100% ➙ 71BPM
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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] _ _ _