Luyện nghe bài hát When Lilly Was Queen

(Ray Sawyer/Dennis Haffkine)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(c) 1973 Blackwood Music Inc., & Reekooh