Chords for Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie (with WKBW radio intro) - [original STEREO]

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_ _ [F] _ _ Welcome to Flashback Favorites.
I'm Music Mike.
Thanks for joining me again [G#] back to the late 60s for some swamp rock played directly from [N] this radio station's greatest hit selfie, _ _ WKBW from Buffalo, New York, with lead-in by disc jockey Big Jack Armstrong.
Here is Tony Joe White, a tune that made it to number six in 1969, with Polk Salad Annie on Flashback Favorites.
_ _ [A] He's on the grassroots, third and three in a [Am] row, as always after the news, former A.B. Exclusive, Glory [D] Bound.
_ [E] _ _ [G] WKBW Radio Music _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] People.
_ [F] _ _ [E] _ [C] You're listening to the [N] Jack Armstrong Experience on WKBW, the home of dynamite music.
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_ _ [Em] _ [E] _ _ _ I assume y'all never been down south too much.
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this so that you understand what I'm talking about. _ _ _ _
_ _ Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods in the fields.
Looks something like a turnip green.
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Nearby called it Polk Salad.
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Polk [A] _ [A#] _ [B] _ _ [Em] Salad.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Used to know a girl that lived down there and she'd go out in the evenings and pick her a mess of it. _
Carry it home and cook it for supper.
_ _ Cause that's about all they had to eat. _ _ _
They did all right.
[Em] _ [E] _ _ Now down in Louisiana, _ _ where the alligators rose from eating, _ there lived a girl that swam through the world.
Made [C#] the [F#] alligators loop.
[G#m] _ _ [F#m] [A] Polk Salad Annie.
_ _ _ _ [Em] Polk Salad Annie.
[E] _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ [G] Everybody said it was a [A] shame, _ [G] cause her mama was a wicked on [A] a chain gang.
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I mean, this is [A] normal.
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Every day for supper time, she'd go down by the truck and _ pick her a mess of Polk Salad. _ _
Carry [C#] it home in a [G#] tote [F#m] sack.
Polk [A] Salad Annie.
_ _ _ _ _ [E] Scratch your granny.
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Everybody said it was [A] a shame, _ [G] cause her mama was a wicked [A] on a chain gang.
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_ A wretched, _ [A] spiteful, _
[E] straight razor-toed [A] woman.
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Lord, I must pick my mess up. _ _ _
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[E] Her _ daddy was lazy and no count.
_ _ _ Claimed he had a bad back.
_ _ All her brothers were fit for stealing [C#m] _ watermelons out [G#m] of my truck.
[F#m] That's Polk [A] Salad Annie. _ _ _
_ [D] The [E] gator's got your granny. _ _ _
_ _ [G] Everybody said it [A] was a shame, _ [G] cause her mama [Bm] was a wicked on [A] a chain gang.
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[E] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ [Em] _
[E] _ _ Suck a little Polk Salad to me.
_ No one needs me or mess up.
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_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ I'm gone. _
_ _ _ That's a hell of a need. _
_ _ I hate her. _ _ _ _
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