(verse 1) 
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Down in Louisiana, 
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Where the alligators grow so mean, 
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Lived a girl that I swear to the world, 
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Made the alligators look tame, 


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Polk salad Annie, 
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'Gators got your granny, 
     G                  A 
Everybody said it was a shame, 
        G                       A           E 
For the mama was working on the chain gang, 
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What a mean, vicious woman,  
 
(verse 2) 
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Everyday before suppertime, 
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She'd go down by the truck patch, 
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And pick her a mess of Polk salad, 
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And carry it home in a tote sack, 
 
(chorus) 
           A 
Polk salad Annie, 
                E 
'Gators got you granny, 
     G                  A 
Everybody said it was a shame, 
           G                       A          E 
'Cause the mama was working on the chain gang, 
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Whoo, how wretched, dispiteful, straight-razor totin woman, 
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Lord have mercy, 
 
(bridge) 
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Sock a little Polk salad to him , 

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Yeah, you know what, yeah, yeah, 
 
(verse 3) 
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But daddy was a lazy and a no count, 
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Claimed he had a bad back, 
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All her brothers were fit for, 
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Was stealing watermelons out of my truck, 
 
(chorus) 
                    A 
For once Polk salad Annie, 
                 E 
'Gators got your granny, 
     G                  A 
Everybody said it was a shame, 
        G                       A         E 
For the mama was working on the chain-gang, 
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Sock a little Polk salad to him , 
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You know what meets a meal mention, 
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You sock a little, 
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Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah, 
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Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon, 
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Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon, 
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Sock a little Polk salad to him , 
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You know what meets a meal mention, 
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Sock a little Polk salad to him , 
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You know what meets a meal mention, 
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Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin, ling, ling ling,