Sung:
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, ’gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
‘Cause her mama was working on the chain-gang
Spoken: a mean, vicious woman
Everyday ’fore supper time, she’d go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess o’ polk salad and carry it home in a tote sack
Polk salad Annie, ’gators got you granny
Everybody said it was a shame
‘Cause her mama was aworkin’ on the chain-gang
Spoken: A wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin’ woman, Lord have mercy. Sock a little polk salad to her.
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, ’gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her mama was a working’ on the chain gang
Sock a little polk salad to me
You know I need a mess of it [repeat and vamp]