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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
