Chords for Tony Joe White - "Polk Salad Annie" [Live from Austin, TX]

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_ _ [A] [E] 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 going to tell you about it one more time, _ _ so that you understand what we're talking about.
_ _ [A] _ [E] _ Now down there we got a plant, _ looks something like a turnip green, except it ain't.
_ _ _ Because everybody calls it Hose Valley.
_ _ Hose [Bb] Valley.
[B] _ [E] _ _
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Now I used to know a girl that lived down there.
_ _ She'd go out in the innings 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.
_ _ [E] _ _ _ I slept down in Louisiana where the alligator grew so [A] mean.
[E] A little girl got a sweat to the world.
Made the alligator look [D] tame.
[A] That's Sally there.
_ [E] Old Sally there.
_ _ [G] Everybody said [A] it was a shame.
[G] Because her mama was [E] working on a chain gang. _
Mean [A] vicious one.
[E] _ _ _ [Em] _ [E] _ _
_ _ Every day for [A] supper [E] time.
Go down by the truck pants.
Big hard miserable sack.
Carry it home in a tow sack.
[A] Old Sally there.
The [E] alligator got to grind it.
Smoke it.
[G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame.
Because her mama was working on [E] a chain gang.
_ A rich head.
[A] _ [E] _ _
[A] Spiteful.
[E] _ Straight razor-toed woman. _
_ I been to _ _ _ _ _
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Louisiana, New York.
Claimed he had a bad past.
And [Em] all her brothers were footballers.
[F] Stealing watermelon out of my [A] truck.
Old Sally there.
The [E] alligator got to grind it.
_ [G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame.
[G] Because her mama was [A] working on a [E] chain gang.
_ [A] _
[E] _ [A] _ [E] _ _ _ Like a little poor Sally.
You want me on this?
_ Shut up. _
_ Shut up.
_ _ Shut up. _
_ [Em] Shut up.
_ Old Sally there.
_ _ _ _ _ The alligator got to grind it. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] Old Sally there.
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_ [N] _ _ _ _ [Em] There you go. _