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Track: Polk Salad Annie
Artist: Tony Joe White
Album: Black & White

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Name: Tony Joe White
Spotify Genres: blues, blues rock
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American swamp rock singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was born July 23, 1943 in Oak Grove, Louisiana and died October 24, 2018 in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee. Best known for his song 'Polk Salad Annie' which peaked at #8 on the Billboard chart, and was covered by [a27518]. In 1969 [a310351] recorded his song 'Rainy Night In Georgia', and this version reached #4 on the Billboard chart. In 1989 [a24221] released '[Link]' as a single. Her version peaked at #40 on the US Billboard top 100. It was also a moderate hit across Europe and in Australia and New Zealand. Married to [a772065] 1964 until his death in 2018. Father of [a746249] and [a2227162].

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Release: Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie / Aspen Colorado
Year: 1968
Genres: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Styles: Blues Rock, Southern Rock

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If some of ya'll never been down south too much
I'm gonna tell you a little bit 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 fields looks somethin' like a turnip green
And everybody calls it polk salad, polk 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


Down in Louisiana, where the alligators grow so mean
There lived a girl, that I swear to the world
Made the alligators look tame
Polk salad Annie, polk salad Annie
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her momma was a workin' on the chain gang
(A mean, vicious woman)

Every day 'for suppertime, she'd go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess of polk salad, and carry it home in a tow sack
Polk salad Annie, the gators got your granny
Everybody says it was a shame
Cause her momma was a workin' on the chain gang
(A wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman)
(Lord have Mercy, pick 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
Polk salad Annie, the gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her momma was a workin' on the chain gang

(Sock a little polk salad to me
You know I need me a mess of it)