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Kehlen Crow
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PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2005 5:54 pm    Post subject: Polk Salad Annie Reply with quote

Could someone please explain what is going on in this song?
It puzzles me exceedingly.

Where do they have such pronounciation Joe imitates?
Why is it bad to work for a chain-gang? (What is a chain-gang?)
Is "gators got you granny" a teaser?
Does a plant "polk salad" really exist? Shocked

Thank you.

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PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2005 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Could someone please explain what is going on in this song?


Well, I'd rather say nothing is going on... except some people having Polk Salad for dinner. Very Happy

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Where do they have such pronounciation Joe imitates?


Down South... Tony Joe White, the author of this song, is known as one of the representatives of swamp rock, which originated there. By the way, Joe also imitates a similar kind of pronunciation in many other songs (Nobody Loves You, Pick A Bale O' Cotton, Cotton Fields etc.)

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Is "gators got you granny" a teaser?


Might be... But maybe they actually did? Why not? Very Happy


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Does a plant "polk salad" really exist?


Yes, I think so. But I've never found it in any dictionary... Rolling Eyes

By the way, have you heard Elvis' version of the song? Smile

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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oops, I forgot to answer your question about chain-gang (if what I've been writing so far can be called answering...) Wink
A chain-gang is a group of prisoners who are chained together for work outside their prison (e.g. in some mines, etc.) So probably Annie's granny was in some way connected with criminals (was a criminal herself?) But again, this expression might have another meaning in slang... Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you Smile

Well, I haven't heard Elvis singing this song yet but I'll find it.

And the phrase "her mother was working for a chain-gang", can have another meaning - that she was thier guard (therefore being a bad woman Wink )

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

After bothering a lot more people I can finally say I understand what this song is about. Smile

It is about a poor family living in Louisiana, that consisted of a Mother, a Father, a Grandmother, a daughter Annie and sons.
They were poor and lived of a vegetable, polk salad.
The Mother was a vicious convicted woman, their father "lazy and no count" and the sons were little thiefs.
So when one day the alligators ate the granny everyone was sorry since nobody was left to teach the kids something good Razz

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So perhaps Grandma Annie was somehow associated with criminals (he was a criminal himself?) But again, this term has a different meaning in slang.
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