Tony Joe White - Clovis Green lyrics

Clovis Green was a wealthy man He made his living raising sugar cane He had spent his life working the land Just outside the town of New Orleans His daughter Angelie was an only child She was a lovely girl of seventeen You would never find her out running wild She was a debutante in New Orleans Sent her off to the finest school So very young never paid no dues Her momma said "honey you can't lose We've got your life planned out for you" But they received 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