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Lyr Req: poke salat?/Polk Salad Annie(Joe White)
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Obit: RIP Tony Joe White (1943-2018) (4)
(origins) Origins: Pork/Poke/Polk Salad Annie (33)
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Lyr Req: poke salat?/Polk Salad Annie(Joe White) Related threads: Obit: RIP Tony Joe White (1943-2018) (4) (origins) Origins: Pork/Poke/Polk Salad Annie (33) Tune Req: Poke Salad Annie, Joe White (19) |
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Subject: the words From: maxine Date: 23 Oct 98 - 07:26 PM Help!! I'm trying to get the right words to a blues tune called "poke salat or salad Annie" !! I love it but have only heard one person do it and even he felt he didn't have the words right!! Could someone rescue us folks up here in the great white north?? Thanks |
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Subject: RE: From: Bob Schwarer Date: 23 Oct 98 - 08:07 PM Whatever the song title is, the stuff is poke salat (pokeweed). Very good eating if you know how to fix it(my wife does). Grows wild, although I have cultivated it. Wife finally said "if you're going to grow it do it where I don't have to look at it".
Got to pick it young, it can get to be a pretty big bush. Still have some in the freezer; maybe I'll try it this weekend. BTW the berries are purple and the birds eat them then fly over whatever you don't want them to fly over with purple poop. Bob S. |
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Subject: RE: From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 23 Oct 98 - 08:12 PM Polk is a ubiquitous weed here in the near South (Maryland, USA). Polk is only picked when it is quite young in the Spring. The leafy shoots are edible then, but it ain't no big taste treat. It probably has some nutritional value. The plant can grow nearly five feet tall with a stem an inch or more in diameter. As a mature plant, I believe the leaves are poisonous. The plant also produces clusters of purple berries upon which birds feed. Laundry on the line, convertible tops, and even siding can develop purple spots from the droppings of birds who have eaten the Polk berries. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: From: Vic in Ausralia Date: 24 Oct 98 - 11:22 AM Hi, are you talking about the Tony Joe White song "Polk Salad Annie", that goes...... "Down in Louisiana, where the alligator grows so mean There lives a girl, i swear to the world: made the a's look tame....PSA....'gator got your grannie...etc... If that's the one, I'll dig it out and post a proper lyric. (it starts with a monologue) ((also recorded live by Presley, but nothing to do with King Creole)) Bye....Vic |
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Subject: ADD: Polk Salad Annie From: Joe Offer Date: 24 Oct 98 - 01:27 PM Polk Salad Annie (words & music by Tony Joe White) (as recorded by Elvis Presley) Some of you all never been down South too much... I' gonna tell you a little story, so you'll understand where I'm talking about Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields, and it looks something like a turnip green. Everybody calls it Polk salad. Now that's Polk salad. Used to know a girl that lived down there and she'd go out in the evenings to 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. Down in Louisiana Where the alligators grow so mean Lived a girl that I swear to the world Made the alligators look tame Polk salad Annie 'Gators got your granny Everybody said it was a shame For the mama was working on the chain-gang What a mean, vicious woman Everyday before suppertime She'd go down by the truck patch And pick her a mess of Polk salad And carry it home in a tote sack Polk salad Annie 'Gators got you granny Everybody said it was a shame 'Cause the mama was working on the chain-gang Whoo, how wretched, dispiteful, straight-razor totin' woman, Lord have mercy. Sock a little Polk salad to him Yeah, you know what, yeah, yeah But daddy was a lazy and a no-count Claimed he had a bad back All her brothers were fit for Was stealing watermelons out of my truck For once Polk salad Annie 'Gators got your granny Everybody said it was a shame For the mama was working on the chain-gang Sock a little Polk salad to him You know what meets a meal mention You sock a little Hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon Chic a bon, chic a bon, chic a bon bon bon bon Sock a little Polk salad to him You know what meets a meal mention Sock a little Polk salad to him You know what meets a meal mention Chinc, chinc, chinc, chin, ling, ling ling |
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Subject: RE: From: Bob Schwarer Date: 24 Oct 98 - 05:24 PM Roger In Baltimore: Cook the greens like you would spinach(or collards). Drain well & squeeze the water out.(I know, I'm from Wisconsin "squeeze out the water"). Mix up with eggs(2 or 3 for a baseball sized wad) and saute in a pan with bacon grease 'til the eggs are done. Be sure to stir so they don't stick together like an omelet. Enjoy. How do y'all do them? Bob S. |
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Subject: RE: From: Aine Date: 24 Oct 98 - 05:42 PM Don't forget to eat them with some good red wine vinegar and a dash of McIlhenny's tabasco sauce. Now, don't use just any tabasco/red sauce -- you HAVE to use McIlhenny's!! The menu should be completed by a good size ham (with plenty of marble [fat] in it), blackeyed peas and cornbread. Enjoyed with a glass of white wine or light American beer, let the good times roll, mon ami! -- Aine |
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Subject: RE: From: Joe Offer Date: 24 Oct 98 - 05:46 PM Bob, do you mean to say that it's wrong to say "squeeze the water out"? Hey, I grew up on the southside of Milwaukee, down by Mitchell Street, where the streetcar turns the corner round. And that's pronounced "souseside," ena hey? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: From: Bob Schwarer Date: 24 Oct 98 - 07:05 PM Hell no it a'int wrong. Everyone else is out of step. Bob S. |
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Subject: RE: From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 24 Oct 98 - 08:22 PM In nearby Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Dutch "walk the street across, and look the window in." Of course, the Dutch is truly Deutsch (that's German for German) and the sentence structure is German. Perhaps the same is true in Wisconsin. Just a little German influence. Looking at everyone's recipe, polk weed looks like the vegetable version of tofu. Not much by itself, but if you mix it with good tastin' food, it helps out. Eggs in bacon grease, or ham and tabasco sauce. A good start for just about any meal. Add polk weed or tofu, still a good meal. Roger in Baltimore |
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