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 outta Martha White flour sack
Them was the days Lilly was queen

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

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

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

Lilly Pearl still standin' by the
Talkin' to a pot of and beans
Twenty later, still cookin' a spread
But there's no reunion 'cause the family's 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 your child?
Lilly Pearl, his daddy run and left you crazy
But ooh ooh man had a pretty smile

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

(c) 1973 Blackwood Inc., & Reekooh Music