Poke Salad Annie

Jerry Reed

Intro:

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If some of y'all never been down south too much,

I'm gonna tell you a little about this so that you'll

Understand what I'm talkin' about ...

Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods,

And in the field ... looks somethin like a turnip green,

And everybody calls it poke salad ... poke salad;

Used to know a girl 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, but they did all right.

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Down in Lou'siana, where the alligators grow so mean,

There lived a girl that I swear to the world,
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Made the alligators look tame, 
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Poke Salad Annie, Poke Salad Annie
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Everybody said it was a shame, cause her
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Mama was a workin on the chain gang

(a mean, vicious woman)

Every day 'fore suppertime, she'd go down by the truck patch,
And pick her a mess o' poke salad and carry it home in a tote sack,
Poke Salad Annie, The gators got your granny,
Everybody said it was a shame, cause her
Mama was a workin on the chain gang
(a wretched, spiteful, straight razor totin' woman,
Lord have mercy, pick me a mess of it)

Her daddy was lazy and no count, claimed he had a bad back,
& All her brothers were fit for, was stealin watermelons out of my truck patch,
Poke Salad Annie, The gators got your granny,
Everybody said it was a shame, cause her
Mama was a workin on the chain gang
(sock a little poke salad to me,
you know I need me a mess of it)