(Ray Sawyer/Dennis Locorriere/Ron Haffkine)
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Lilly Pearl standin' by the woodstove
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Cookin' up a pot of fatback and beans
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Aprons made outta Martha White flour sack
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Them was the days when Lilly was queen
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There's gonna be a family reunion
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Down around Little River Park
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Lilly got a brand new baby they say
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Jesse Brown had to up and run away
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It might as well rain 'cause nobody came
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Jesse left so fast the baby got no name
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Lilly Pearl, what'cha gonna name your baby?
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Lilly Pearl, what'cha gonna name your child?
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Lilly Pearl, they say he run away and left you crazy
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But ooh ooh your man had a pretty smile
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Lilly Pearl told most folks
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She could raise her baby fine without a man
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But she cried at the table to her kin folk
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Her people cried with her, but did they understand?
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Lilly Pearl still standin' by the woodstove
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Talkin' to a pot of fatback and beans
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Twenty years later, still cookin' a spread
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But there's no reunion 'cause the family's mostly dead
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They took her baby at the age of 13
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Left her livin' in the days when Lilly was queen
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Lilly Pearl, did you ever name your baby?
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Lilly Pearl, do you ever miss your child?
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Lilly Pearl, his daddy run away and left you crazy
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But ooh ooh your man had a pretty smile
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Lilly Pearl, you never gonna know your baby?
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Lilly Pearl, they never let you see your child?
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Lilly Pearl, they say he run away and left you crazy
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But ooh ooh your man had a pretty smile
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(c) 1973 Blackwood Music Inc., & Reekooh Music
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When Lilly Was Queen
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Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show |