Clovis Green

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Clovis Green was a wealthy man
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He made his living raising sugar 
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cane
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He had spent his life working the 
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land
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Just outside the town of New Orleans

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His daughter Angelie was an only 
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child
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She was a lovely girl of seventeen
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You would never find her out 
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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 
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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