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 flour sack
Them was the when Lilly was queen

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

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

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

Lilly Pearl standin' by the woodstove
Talkin' to a pot of and beans
years 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
Lilly Pearl, do you ever miss your
Lilly Pearl, his daddy run away and left you
But ooh ooh man had a pretty smile

Lilly Pearl, you never gonna know baby?
Lilly Pearl, never 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 Music Inc., & Reekooh