Polk Salad Annie Chords by Tony Joe White

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_ _ _ _ _ I'd like to do it for some folks who came up from Corpus Christi. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Now some of y'all still ain't never been down south. _ _
_ I'm gonna tell you about it one more time, _ _ so that you understand what we're talking about.
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Down there we got a plant, _ _ looks something like a turnip green, _ except it [Bm] ain't,
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because everybody calls it folk salad.
_ _ That's folk [A#] [B] salad.
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_ _ _ Now there used to be a girl down there, _ _ she'd go out in the evenings and pick her 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, and smoke it. _ _ _ _
_ But she did all [Em] right, y'all.
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_ I slept down in Louisiana, where the alligator girls sold me.
[E] The little dog girl got a sweat to the world, made the alligator look tame.
[D] Folk [A] salad, ain't it?
Folk [E] salad, ain't it?
_ _ [G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame, [G] cause her mama was a [E]-workin' on a chain gang.
_ Mean, vicious [A] woman.
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Every day for supper time, go down by the truck patch.
Big hard mess of folk salad, carry it home in a tow sack.
[A] Folk salad, ain't it?
The gator [E] got your granny, chomp, chomp.
[G] Everybody said it [Em] was a shame, cause her [Am] mama was a-workin' on a [E] chain gang.
A rich head, [A] _ [E] _ spiteful, [A] _ [E] _
straight razor-toed woman.
All right, baby. _
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_ _ _ _ Lazy and no count, claimed he had a bad back.
And all her brothers were fit for [Em] stealin' [C#] [E] watermelons out of my truck patch.
[A] Folk salad, ain't it?
_ [E] The gator got your granny.
_ _ [G] Everybody said [A] it was a shame, [G] cause her mama was a-workin' [A] on a chain [E] gang.
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[E] _ _ Suck a little folk salad, baby.
You ain't need me a mess of it.
Suck a little.
_ Suck a little.
_ Suck a little.
_ Suck a little.
[Em] _ _ Folk salad, ain't it? _ _
_ _ The gator got your own granny.
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_ _ _ Folk salad, ain't it? _ _
_ _ _ _ Chomp, chomp. Chomp, chomp. _
Chomp, chomp. _ _ _ _ _ _
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