Luyện nghe bài hát When Lilly Was Queen

(Ray Locorriere/Ron Haffkine)

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

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

Pearl, what'cha gonna name your baby?
Lilly Pearl, gonna name your child?
Lilly Pearl, they say he run 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 at the table to her kin folk
Her people cried with her, but did they

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

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

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

(c) 1973 Music Inc., & Reekooh Music