Luyện nghe bài hát When Lilly Was Queen

(Ray Locorriere/Ron Haffkine)

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

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

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

Lilly Pearl told folks
She raise her baby fine without a man
But she cried at the table to her kin
Her cried with her, but did they understand?

Pearl still 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
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 child?
Pearl, his daddy run away and left you crazy
But ooh ooh man had a pretty smile

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

(c) 1973 Music Inc., & Reekooh Music