Luyện nghe bài hát When Lilly Was Queen

(Ray Sawyer/Dennis Haffkine)

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

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

Pearl, what'cha gonna name 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

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

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

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

Lilly Pearl, you gonna know your baby?
Lilly Pearl, they let you see your child?
Lilly Pearl, they say he run and left you crazy
But ooh ooh your man had a pretty

(c) 1973 Blackwood Music Inc., & Reekooh