Luyện nghe bài hát When Lilly Was Queen

(Ray Locorriere/Ron Haffkine)

Pearl standin' by the woodstove
Cookin' up a pot of fatback and
made outta Martha White flour sack
Them was the when Lilly was queen

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

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

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

Lilly Pearl still standin' by the
Talkin' to a pot of fatback and
Twenty years later, still cookin' a
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 ever miss your
Lilly Pearl, his daddy run and left you crazy
But ooh ooh your man had a smile

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

(c) 1973 Blackwood Music Inc., & Music