The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #15630   Message #252953
Posted By: Tracey Dragonsfriend
06-Jul-00 - 02:02 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Pork/Poke/Polk Salad Annie
Subject: Polk/Poke-Salad Annie
OK, so I'm not sure this is Folk, but it ought to creep into Blues, I think...
Does anyone know the words to this song? I can't find it anywhere here or in the DT, and I can only remember a little bit and the chorus :
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There lived a girl
Made the 'gators look tame

Poke-salad Annie
'Gator got your grannie (Chomp, chomp!)
Ev'rybody said it was a shame
That your momma was a-workin' on the chain gang
It's such a good song to sing to yourself (the only audience I'd consider singing anything to!), and it's annoying not remembering more of it!