Anyone ever tab the Tony Joe White version of this?
Hey, I love that song!
The only tab I ever found with the nifty little opening guitar riff was here:
http://www.guitaretab.com/p/presley-elvis/22228.html
I don't know the Elvis version, only the Tony Joe one and this seems accurate to that.
:)
Don
Yeah, I always loved the guitar in this song too. Don't know of any tabs but I found this great video on You Tube. I think this is lip-sync, but you can see how he plays a few of the licks.
If you know something better than Rock and Roll, I'd like to hear it - Jerry Lee Lewis
Great video! Another example of how the voice never matches the look
Couldn't help but notice that the lyrics in that tab don't quite match up with Tony Joe White's version...
Here they are: (but I didn't include the "chic a booms")(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 about.
Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields, looks somethin' like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it Polk salad. Polk salad.
Used to know a girl that lived down there and she'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.
(Sing)
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 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
Polk salad Annie 'Gators got your granny
Everybody 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 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
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her mama was a working' on the chain gang
(Sock a little polk salad to me, you know I need me a mess of it)
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"Don't wanna ride no shootin' star. Just wanna play on the rhythm guitar." Emmylou Harris, "Rhythm Guitar" from "The Ballad of Sally Rose"
Did Jerry Reed do a cover of that one?
