Clovis Green

White Tony Joe

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Tony Joe White - Clovis Green 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 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

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Cette chanson raconte l'histoire de Clovis Green, un homme prospère qui a consacré sa vie à sa plantation de canne à sucre près de la Nouvelle-Orléans. Son unique fille, Angelie, est une jeune femme de dix-sept ans, élevée dans la société, à qui l'on a tout prévu. Cependant, elle décide de revenir chez elle, mettant à mal tous les projets que ses parents avaient pour elle, car elle attend un enfant. Cette nouvelle bouleverse la dynamique familiale et laisse ses parents perplexes face à cette situation inattendue, leur amour et leurs espoirs se heurtant à la réalité. Le contexte de la chanson évoque les défis des attentes sociales et familiales, contrastant avec le désir d'indépendance de la jeunesse. On y ressent une certaine tension entre tradition et liberté, tout en explorant les thèmes de l'amour familial et des rêves brisés.

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