Additionaly the song was covered by over 40 artists. It was a very popular life act for Elvis Presley in the 70's. Among others Johnny Hallyday and Tom Jones sang this song.
Open G
Now, some of you all never been down South too much -
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this so you'll
understand what I'm talkin' about...
Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods
and the fields...
looks some like a turnip green...
ev'rybody 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.
They did all right...
I'm down in Louisiana,
where the aligators grow so mean,
there lived a girl that I'd swear to the world
made the aligators look tame
Polk Salad Annie
Polk Salad Annie
Everybody said it was a shame
'cause her Mama was working on a chain gang...
A mean, vicious woman....
Every day for supper time
she'd go down by the truck patch
and pick her a mess of Polk Salad
and carry it home in a towsack
Polk Salad Annie
The Gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
'cause her Mama was working on a chain gang...
A wretched, spiteful, straight razor totin' woman,
Lord have mercy...
(break)
Her daddy was lazy and no count
claimed he had a bad back
all her brothers were fit for
was stealing watermelons out of my truck patch...
Polk Salad Annie
The Gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
'cause her Mama was working on a chain gang...
Sock a little Polk Salad to me...
You know we need a mere mess of it...