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 White sack
Them was the days Lilly was queen

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

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

Lilly Pearl told folks
She could raise her baby without a man
But she cried at the to her kin folk
Her people cried with her, but did they

Lilly Pearl still 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 livin' in the when Lilly was queen

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

(c) 1973 Blackwood Music Inc., & Reekooh