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I feel like I have lost several friends.No one told me he was dead
What does he spend it on then?
we'll have to have some baked squirrel in his memory
because Elvis used to eat squirrel..
Written by Tony Joe WhiteOriginally recorded by Tony Joe WhiteAlso recorded by Elvis Presley[spoken]If some of ya'll never been down South too much...I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this,So that you'll understand what I'm talking aboutDown there we have a plantThat grows out in the woods and the fields,Looks somethin' like a turnip green.Everybody calls it Poke salad. Poke salad.Used to know a girl that lived down there andshe'd go out in the evenings and pick a mess of it...Carry it home and cook it for supper,'Cause that's about all they had to eat,But they did all right.[sung]Down in LouisianaWhere the alligators grow so meanThere lived a girl that I swear to the worldMade the alligators look tamePoke salad Annie, poke salad AnnieEverybody said it was a shameCause her mama was working on the chain-gang(A mean, vicious woman)Everyday 'fore supper timeShe'd go down by the truck patchAnd pick her a mess o' polk saladAnd carry it home in a tote sackPoke salad Annie, 'gators got you grannyEverybody said it was a shame'Cause her mama was aworkin' on the chain-gang(a wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman,Lord have mercy. Pick a mess of it)Her daddy was lazy and no countClaimed he had a bad backAll her brothers were fit forWas stealin' watermelons out of my truck patchPoke salad Annie, the gators got your grannyEverybody said it was a shameCause her mama was a working' on the chain gang(Sock a little polk salad to me, you know I need a mess of it)
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