Chords for Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie - 11 January 1992 - French TV Show "Les Nuls"
Tempo:
84.05 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Jam Along & Learn...
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I'm going to tell you about it one more time so that you understand what we're talking about.
Down there we got a plant.
like a turnip green.
calls it poke salad.
salad.
I used to know a girl that lived down there.
of it and carry it home and cook it for supper.
I'm going to tell you about it one more time so that you understand what we're talking about.
Down there we got a plant.
like a turnip green.
calls it poke salad.
salad.
I used to know a girl that lived down there.
of it and carry it home and cook it for supper.
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_ I'm going to tell you about it one more time so that you understand what we're talking about. _ _ _ _
Down there we got a plant.
It looks something like a turnip green.
_ _ _ Except everybody calls it poke salad.
_ _ That's poke _ salad. _ _ _
_ _ I used to know a girl that lived down there.
_ She'd go out in the evenings and pick a little bit of it and carry it home and cook it for supper. _
_ _ And if she had any left over, [E] she'd hang it out on the clothesline and dry it out, _ smoke it. _ _ _
She did all right. _ _ _
_ I said, down in Louisiana, where the alligator grow so many, there lived a girl that I swam
to the well, and the alligator looked heavy.
[A] Poke salad, Annie. _
Poke salad, Annie.
[E] _ _ [G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame.
Her [G] mama wore a wig and wore [A] a chain band.
[E] A mean, [A] _
[E] _ vicious woman.
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_ _ _ Every day for supper time, she'd go down by the truck patch.
Big, hot mess of poke salad.
_ Camry it home in her tow sack.
[A] Poke salad, Annie. _
The alligator [E] got the granny.
Chomp, chomp.
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Everybody said it was [A] a shame.
[G] Her mama wore a wig [A] and wore a chain band.
[E] _ A wretched, _ _ _ spiteful, _ _ straight-raised, tooting woman.
All right, baby. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Her daddy was a Louisiana [Em]
count.
[E] Claimed he had a bad back. _
Now her brother's bitch was stealing one and another by the truck patch.
[A] Poke salad, Annie. _
The alligator got [E] the only granny.
Chomp.
[G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame.
[G] Her mama wore a wig and wore a chain band.
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_ _ _ Suck a little poke salad, do me.
_ No one needed me, I'm a surrogate.
Suck a little, uh.
_ Suck a little, uh, uh.
_ Suck a little, uh, uh, uh.
Suck a little, uh, uh, uh, uh.
Poke [E] salad, Annie.
_ The alligator got the granny.
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_ Put her down. _ _
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_ _ _ _ Suck a little poke salad, _ [Em] do me, y'all. _
Little poke.
_ Do me.
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_ I'm going to tell you about it one more time so that you understand what we're talking about. _ _ _ _
Down there we got a plant.
It looks something like a turnip green.
_ _ _ Except everybody calls it poke salad.
_ _ That's poke _ salad. _ _ _
_ _ I used to know a girl that lived down there.
_ She'd go out in the evenings and pick a little bit of it and carry it home and cook it for supper. _
_ _ And if she had any left over, [E] she'd hang it out on the clothesline and dry it out, _ smoke it. _ _ _
She did all right. _ _ _
_ I said, down in Louisiana, where the alligator grow so many, there lived a girl that I swam
to the well, and the alligator looked heavy.
[A] Poke salad, Annie. _
Poke salad, Annie.
[E] _ _ [G] Everybody said it was [A] a shame.
Her [G] mama wore a wig and wore [A] a chain band.
[E] A mean, [A] _
[E] _ vicious woman.
[A] _ [E] _
_ _ _ Every day for supper time, she'd go down by the truck patch.
Big, hot mess of poke salad.
_ Camry it home in her tow sack.
[A] Poke salad, Annie. _
The alligator [E] got the granny.
Chomp, chomp.
[G]
Everybody said it was [A] a shame.
[G] Her mama wore a wig [A] and wore a chain band.
[E] _ A wretched, _ _ _ spiteful, _ _ straight-raised, tooting woman.
All right, baby. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Her daddy was a Louisiana [Em]
count.
[E] Claimed he had a bad back. _
Now her brother's bitch was stealing one and another by the truck patch.
[A] Poke salad, Annie. _
The alligator got [E] the only granny.
Chomp.
[G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame.
[G] Her mama wore a wig and wore a chain band.
[E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Suck a little poke salad, do me.
_ No one needed me, I'm a surrogate.
Suck a little, uh.
_ Suck a little, uh, uh.
_ Suck a little, uh, uh, uh.
Suck a little, uh, uh, uh, uh.
Poke [E] salad, Annie.
_ The alligator got the granny.
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_ Put her down. _ _
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_ _ _ _ Suck a little poke salad, _ [Em] do me, y'all. _
Little poke.
_ Do me.
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