When Lilly Was Queen

When Lilly Was Queen - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

Lilly Pearl standin' by the wood stove

Cookin' up a pot of fatback and beans

Aprons made outta martha white flour sack

Them was the days when Lilly was queen

There's gonna be a family reunion

Down around little river park

Lilly got a brand new baby they say

Jesse brown had to up and run away

It might as well rain 'cause nobody came

Jesse left so fast the baby got no name

Lilly Pearl what'cha gonna name your baby

Baby

Baby

Lilly Pearl what'cha gonna name your child

Lilly Pearl say he run away not to

Crazy

Crazy

Crazy

But

Your man had a pretty smile

Lilly Pearl told most folks

She could raise her baby fine without a man

But she cried at the table to her kin folk

Her people cried with her but did they understand

Lilly Pearl still standin' by the wood stove

Talkin' to a pot of fatback and beans

Twenty years later still cookin' a spread

But there's no reunion 'cause the family's mostly dead

They took her baby at the age of 13

Left her livin' in the days when Lilly was queen

Lilly Pearl did you ever name your baby

Baby

Baby

Baby

Lilly Pearl do you ever miss your child

Lilly Pearl his daddy run away and left you crazy

Crazy

Crazy

Crazy

But

Your man had a pretty smile

He loved you

You

Lilly Pearl you never gonna know your baby

Baby

Baby

Yeah

Lilly Pearl they never let you see your child

Lilly Pearl they say he run away and left you crazy

Crazy

Crazy