When Lilly Was Queen-Dr. Hook

[ti:When Lilly Was Queen] [ar:Dr. Hook] [al:The Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]When Lilly Was Queen - Dr. Hook [00:00.24]Lilly Pearl standin' by the wood stove [00:02.34] [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 [00:12.92] [00:16.58]There's gonna be a family reunion [00:18.93] [00:19.71]Down around little river park [00:21.78] [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 [00:34.43] [00:35.69]Lilly Pearl what'cha gonna name your baby [00:39.59]Baby [00:40.01]Baby [00:40.52] [00:41.30]Lilly Pearl what'cha gonna name your child [00:46.42] [00:47.28]Lilly Pearl say he run away not to [00:49.91]Crazy [00:50.43]Crazy [00:50.92]Crazy [00:51.63] [00:52.46]But [00:52.84] [00:53.95]Your man had a pretty smile [00:55.94] [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 [01:12.66] [01:13.24]Her people cried with her but did they understand [01:19.02] [01:26.38]Lilly Pearl still standin' by the wood stove [01:28.69] [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 [01:43.99] [01:45.46]Lilly Pearl did you ever name your baby [01:49.03]Baby [01:49.58]Baby [01:50.08]Baby [01:50.72] [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 [02:02.70] [02:03.84]Your man had a pretty smile [02:05.84]He loved you [02:06.64] [02:07.37]You [02:07.79] [02:08.45]Lilly Pearl you never gonna know your baby [02:11.74]Baby [02:12.21]Baby [02:12.90]Yeah [02:13.41] [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