Standard (EADGBE)

Down in Louisiana, where the alligators grow so mean.

There lived a girl, that I swear to the world,

made the alligators look tame.

Chorus

 Polk salad Annie, polk salad Annie.

 Everybody said it was a shame..

 cause her Mama was working on the chain-gang.

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.

Chorus

 Polk salad Annie..'gators got your Granny.

 Everybody said it was a shame..cause her Mama was

 workin on the chain-gang..

 a wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman.

Lord have mercy.

(INTERLUDE:HARMONICA:)

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.

Chorus

 Polk salad Annie..the 'gators got your Granny.

 Everybody said it was a shame..cause her Mama was

 working on the chain-gang.

Outro

Sock a little polk-salad to me..you know I need a mean

mess of it..(Fade.)

A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.