Luyện nghe bài hát When Lilly Was Queen

(Ray Locorriere/Ron Haffkine)

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

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

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

Lilly told 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 by the woodstove
to a pot of fatback and beans
Twenty years later, cookin' a spread
But there's no 'cause the family's mostly dead
They 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 and left you crazy
But ooh ooh man had a pretty smile

Lilly Pearl, you gonna 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 pretty

(c) 1973 Blackwood Music Inc., & Reekooh