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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"Corn Salad = Poke Salad"

Never heard of it. But I'd never heard of fried green tomatoes until that movie came out. I'd also never heard of "bourbon and branch" or "low country boil" until I was grown.

76 posted on 03/29/2025 10:31:36 AM PDT by Savage Beast (There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
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Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods and
The fields Looks somethin’ like a turnip green

And 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, polk salad Annie
Everybody said it was a shame
‘Cause her momma was a-workin’ on the chain gang

Every day ‘for suppertime
She’d go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess of polk salad
Carry it home in a tote sack

Polk salad Annie
The gators got your granny, chomp, chomp, chomp
Everybody says it was a shame
‘Cause her momma was a workin’ on the chain gang
(A wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin’ woman, heh-heh)
(Lord, have mercy, pick a mess of it)

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
The gators got your granny, woah ooh-hoo
Everybody said it was a shame
‘Cause her momma was a-workin’ on the chain gang


99 posted on 03/29/2025 3:22:40 PM PDT by deport
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