Luyện nghe bài hát When Lilly Was Queen

(Ray Sawyer/Dennis Haffkine)

Lilly Pearl standin' by the
up a pot of fatback and beans
Aprons made outta Martha flour sack
was the days when Lilly was queen

There's gonna be a family
Down around River Park
Lilly got a brand new baby say
Jesse Brown had to up and run
It might as well rain nobody came
left so fast the baby got no name

Lilly Pearl, gonna name your baby?
Pearl, what'cha gonna name your child?
Lilly Pearl, they say he run away and left you
But ooh ooh man had a pretty smile

Lilly Pearl told most
She could raise her baby fine a man
But she at the table to her kin folk
Her people cried with her, but did understand?

Lilly Pearl standin' by the woodstove
Talkin' to a pot of fatback and
Twenty years later, cookin' a spread
But there's no 'cause the family's mostly dead
took her baby at the age of 13
Left her in the days when Lilly was queen

Lilly Pearl, did you ever name baby?
Lilly Pearl, do you ever miss your
Lilly Pearl, his run away and left you crazy
But ooh ooh your man had a smile

Pearl, you never gonna know your baby?
Lilly Pearl, they never let you see child?
Pearl, they say he run away and left you crazy
But ooh ooh man had a pretty smile

(c) 1973 Music Inc., & Reekooh Music