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Clovis Green was a wealthy man
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He made his living raising sugar cane
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He had spent his life working the land
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Just outside the town of New Orleans
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His daughter Angelie was an only child
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She was a lovely girl of seventeen
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You would never find her out running wild
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She was a debutante in New Orleans
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Sent her off to the finest school
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So very young never paid no dues
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Her momma said "honey you can't lose
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We've got your life planned out for you"
But they reveived a letter in the spring
And she wrote "I know ya'll think I'm crazy
But I'm coming home I've broken all your dreams
Cause you see, I'm going to have a baby"
And his wife looked at him and said
"Clovis, can you tell me true
What in the world are we gonna do
We've given her everything we can
Lord sometimes I just don't understand"
A child was born in the fall
But nobody ever mentioned the father
But when all the neighbors came to call
They would say he looked just like his mother
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.