Chords for Tony Joe White Live in Germany 1992 Polk Salad Annie

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_ _ _ Some of y'all still ain't never been down south.
_ I'll tell you about it one more time, so that you understand what we're talking about.
_ _ [A] _ [E] Down there we got a plant that looks something like a turnip green.
_ Everybody calls it Pope's salad.
_ _ _ That's [A#] Pope's [B] salad.
[E] _ _ I used to know a girl down there, she'd go out in the evenings and pick a little bit of it,
carry it home and cook it for supper. _
_ And if she had any left over, she'd hang it out on the clothesline and dry it out, smoke it.
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She did all right.
_ [E] Down in Louisiana, where the alligator girls so mean.
They licked a girl down a sweat through the whip, made the alligator look [D] trash.
Pope's [A] salad, Annie.
_ [G] Pope's [E] salad, Annie.
_ [G] Nobody said it was [A] a shame.
[G] Mama was working [A] on a chain [E] gang.
A mean, _ vicious woman. _ _ _ _
Her daddy was a lazy, lewd cunt.
Claimed he had a bad life.
All her brothers were pit bulls, stealing watermelon out of my truck.
Pope's [A] salad, Annie.
_ [Em] The kid who got [E] some granny, she told [G] me.
Nobody said it was [A] a shame.
[G] Mama was working [A] on a chain [E] gang.
A wretched, _ [E] _ _ spiteful, _ street-raised, a-tug woman.
You remember something about that? _ _
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Every day for a super time, she'd go down by the truck [A] patch.
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Here come Missy Pulse, _ carry it home in her two sack.
[A] Pope's salad, Annie.
The kid [E] who got some granny, she told me.
[G] Nobody said it [A] was a shame.
[G] Mama was [A] working on a chain gang.
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_ _ _ _ _ Suck a little Pope's salad, do it.
You and me, we'll miss him.
Suck a little, uh.
Suck a little, uh, uh.
Suck a little, uh, uh, uh.
Suck a little, uh, uh, uh, uh.
[Em] Pope's salad, Annie.
_ [A] _ [Em] _ The kid who got some granny, _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Em] she told me.
Hey, you [E] got a [A] good life.
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_ [Em] Hey, _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _
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[G] you [F#m] love [E] to suck a little Pope. _ _
Tell me [D] now, [Em] _ what's a shame?
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_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ You and me, [A] _ [Gm] _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _
[E] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] [A] we'll miss [E] him.
_ Suck a [A] little Pope.
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