Story Behind The Song

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Song Description

Set in New Orleans, the Legend Of Polly Anne tells the story of a pretty young girl who has been married more than ten times but, due tp circumstances beyond her control, has never been divorced. And despite that fact, men fall in love with her all the time.

Lyrics

The Legend of Polly Ann 1992 ? 2004

She was the kind of girl that you read about
See her in a TV or a book
She couldn?t boil water to save her life
but, buddy, she knew hot to cook.

When she fell in love that evening
She told him she?d been married before
Although it slipped her mind to say the number of times
And the fact that she was never divorced

(BRIDGE 1)
So when they went to the preacher in the morning
With the look of love in her eyes
Nobody knew, when she said ?I do?
She was already married to eleven other guys

CHORUS
Polly Anne was the talk of the land
She knew so many men
She?d get hitched and then she?d get ditched
And then start all over again

Polly Anne didn?t understand
?cause she never thought it much of a crime
Because she loved them all, winter, summer, spring and fall
And she loved them all one at a time.

She was the topic of every conversation
From the levy down by Café du Monde
From Audubon Park and down St. Charles
And every place above and beyond

She told the judge her story
He put all the names on a list
They put ?em in the paper the very next day
And it kind of went something like this:

BRIDGE 2:
First one through was her cousin Lou
She was barely 16, didn?t know what to do.
They lived in the swamp on a stilted shack
He went out one night/for a swim/for a smoke and he never came back

Next on the scene was a boy named Davey
When he turned 17, he ran off to the navy

Guy, Pierre, Phillipe, Leon
And the list went on and on and on.

BRIDGE 3
Every night, after the trial, the sheriff took her back to her cell
And every time they laughed and smiled, deeper in love they fell
He said, ?If you could run with me, I?d treat you like a queen.?
She said, ?I don?t mind if you don?t mind being husband number 13.?

So he got to the jail around midnight
And it all went according to plan
They slipped into a boat and rowed into the night
And no one ever saw ?em again

Now this is the part of the story
It?s the part that no body knows
Some say they?re living with the gators in the bottom of the swamp
Others say they made it to the Gulf of Mexico

CHORUS:

Polly Anne was the talk of the land
She knew so many men
She?d get hitched and then she?d get ditched
And then start all over again

Polly Anne didn?t understand
?cause she never thought it much of a crime
Because she loved them all, winter, summer, spring and fall
And she loved them all one at a time.

I said she loved them all, winter, summer, spring and fall
And she loved them all one at a time.