Luyện nghe bài hát When Lilly Was Queen

(Ray Locorriere/Ron Haffkine)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lilly Pearl, you never know your baby?
Lilly Pearl, they 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