[00:00.00]When Lilly Was Queen - Dr. Hook
[00:00.24]Lilly Pearl standin' by the wood stove
[00:03.11]Cookin' up a pot of fatback and beans
[00:05.78]Aprons made outta martha white flour sack
[00:08.66]Them was the days when Lilly was queen
[00:16.58]There's gonna be a family reunion
[00:19.71]Down around little river park
[00:22.69]Lilly got a brand new baby they say
[00:25.38]Jesse brown had to up and run away
[00:28.23]It might as well rain 'cause nobody came
[00:30.86]Jesse left so fast the baby got no name
[00:35.69]Lilly Pearl what'cha gonna name your baby
[00:39.59]Baby
[00:40.01]Baby
[00:41.30]Lilly Pearl what'cha gonna name your child
[00:47.28]Lilly Pearl say he run away not to
[00:49.91]Crazy
[00:50.43]Crazy
[00:50.92]Crazy
[00:52.46]But
[00:53.95]Your man had a pretty smile
[01:04.57]Lilly Pearl told most folks
[01:06.97]She could raise her baby fine without a man
[01:10.07]But she cried at the table to her kin folk
[01:13.24]Her people cried with her but did they understand
[01:26.38]Lilly Pearl still standin' by the wood stove
[01:29.50]Talkin' to a pot of fatback and beans
[01:32.50]Twenty years later still cookin' a spread
[01:34.87]But there's no reunion 'cause the family's mostly dead
[01:38.01]They took her baby at the age of 13
[01:40.72]Left her livin' in the days when Lilly was queen
[01:45.46]Lilly Pearl did you ever name your baby
[01:49.03]Baby
[01:49.58]Baby
[01:50.08]Baby
[01:51.35]Lilly Pearl do you ever miss your child
[01:56.74]Lilly Pearl his daddy run away and left you crazy
[02:00.38]Crazy
[02:00.93]Crazy
[02:01.42]Crazy
[02:02.39]But
[02:03.84]Your man had a pretty smile
[02:05.84]He loved you
[02:07.37]You
[02:08.45]Lilly Pearl you never gonna know your baby
[02:11.74]Baby
[02:12.21]Baby
[02:12.90]Yeah
[02:13.98]Lilly Pearl they never let you see your child
[02:19.79]Lilly Pearl they say he run away and left you crazy
[02:23.23]Crazy
[02:23.76]Crazy