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Yazoo Queen

Madison Hillman

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June 19, 2026

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Lyrics

June 19, 2026

erse 1
She came up slow from the river haze
White dress torn at the hemline fray
Mud on her ankles, storm in her eyes
Looked like trouble dressed up as July
Levee wind liftin’ her black-brown hair
Like the whole damn Delta knew she was there
No church bell rang, no warning came
When they spoke her name

Chorus
Yazoo Queen
Walkin’ where the black water bends
Yazoo Queen
Make a good man drown in his sins
She don’t beg, she don’t plead
She just takes what the night won’t keep
Yazoo Queen
Cold as the river, hot as a flame

Verse 2
Old men whisper down at the store
Say she ain’t been young since ’64
Say she danced one night in a juke joint blaze
And the room caught fire from the way she swayed
Now the neon shakes when she passes through
And the bottle sweats when she looks at you
Every backroad boy learns fear real quick
When the cypress leans like this

Chorus
Yazoo Queen
Walkin’ where the black water bends
Yazoo Queen
Make a good man drown in his sins
She don’t beg, she don’t plead
She just takes what the night won’t keep
Yazoo Queen
Cold as the river, hot as a flame

Verse 3
I saw her once by the county bridge
Moon hung low on the weeping ditch
She said, “Child, this ground remembers all
Every love, every lie, every fool that falls”
Then she laughed like glass in a thunderstorm
And the whole flat field went strange and warm
I turned my truck, but I still could feel
Her hand on the wheel

Bridge
Preacher says run, but the blues say stay
Some women bless, some women break
Some come gentle, some come mean
Then there’s the ones like the Yazoo Queen
With a gold-tooth smile and a flood-stage soul
She’ll look right through what you think you know
And leave you hummin’ some half-bad tune
At the rise of the moon

Final Chorus
Yazoo Queen
Walkin’ where the black water bends
Yazoo Queen
Make a hard heart come loose again
She don’t cry, she don’t grieve
She just calls what the dark won’t leave
Yazoo Queen
River in her blood, fire in her name

Outro
Yeah, the levee holds
Till it don’t
And the Yazoo Queen
She always knows

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