Tony Joe White - Clovis Green

Em (022000@1)C (x32010@1)     D (xx0232@1)                Em (022000@1)Clovis Green was a wealthy man
   C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)          EmHe (022000@1)made his living raising sugar cane
C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)               EmHe (022000@1)had spent his life working the land
D (xx0232@1)                            EmJust (022000@1)outside the town of New Orleans

C (x32010@1)            D (xx0232@1)            Em (022000@1)His daughter Angelie was an only child
    C (x32010@1)           D (xx0232@1)        Em (022000@1)She was a lovely girl of seventeen
          C (x32010@1)            D (xx0232@1)         EmYou (022000@1)would never find her out running wild
     D (xx0232@1)                     Em (022000@1)
She was a debutante in New Orleans

G (320003@1)                         FSent (133211@1)her off to the finest school
C (x32010@1)                          EmSo (022000@1)very young never paid no dues
G (320003@1)                             FHer (133211@1)momma said "honey you can't lose
C (x32010@1)                                 EmWe've (022000@1)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