Luyện nghe bài hát When Lilly Was Queen

(Ray Sawyer/Dennis Haffkine)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(c) 1973 Blackwood Inc., & Reekooh Music