Luyện nghe bài hát When Lilly Was Queen

(Ray Sawyer/Dennis Haffkine)

Lilly Pearl by the woodstove
Cookin' up a pot of and beans
Aprons made outta Martha White sack
was the days when Lilly was queen

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

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

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

Lilly Pearl still by the woodstove
Talkin' to a pot of and beans
Twenty years later, still cookin' a
But there's no reunion 'cause the family's dead
They took her at the age of 13
Left her livin' in the when Lilly was queen

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

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

(c) 1973 Blackwood Music Inc., & Reekooh