I think what is being forgotten here is what a Haitian divorce is...The reason people went to Haiti to get a divorce (back in the 50's and 60's mind you) was to get around US law, specifically State laws involving the need for both parties to agree to a divorce. A haitian divorce, which ironically was often accepted by US States afterthefact, is a uni-lateral divorce, meaning one party can divorce the other without their permission and/or signature. The woman goes alone in the story at the request of her father to get a quickee divorce in Haiti. She of course fails in that mission, but has an affair there and returns home to the States without haven gotten a divorce... but nine months later the woman has a child and it doesn't look at all like "Clean Willie"! The baby is half Haitian...The song ends with the babies background now clear and her father asing her to go to Haiti for a Haitian Divorce.
I think what is being forgotten here is what a Haitian divorce is...The reason people went to Haiti to get a divorce (back in the 50's and 60's mind you) was to get around US law, specifically State laws involving the need for both parties to agree to a divorce. A haitian divorce, which ironically was often accepted by US States afterthefact, is a uni-lateral divorce, meaning one party can divorce the other without their permission and/or signature. The woman goes alone in the story at the request of her father to get a quickee divorce in Haiti. She of course fails in that mission, but has an affair there and returns home to the States without haven gotten a divorce... but nine months later the woman has a child and it doesn't look at all like "Clean Willie"! The baby is half Haitian...The song ends with the babies background now clear and her father asing her to go to Haiti for a Haitian Divorce.
Great tune, excellent beat, written in the 70's