Luyện nghe bài hát When Lilly Was Queen

(Ray Locorriere/Ron Haffkine)

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

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

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

Pearl told most folks
She could her baby fine without a man
But she cried at the table to her kin
Her people cried her, but did they understand?

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

Lilly Pearl, did you ever name your
Lilly Pearl, do you ever your child?
Lilly Pearl, his daddy run away and 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?
Lilly Pearl, say he run away and left you crazy
But ooh ooh your man had a pretty

(c) 1973 Blackwood Inc., & Reekooh Music