Luyện nghe bài hát Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts

The was over the boys were all plannin' for a fall
The cabaret was except for the drillin' in the wall
The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' wheel down
Anyone with any sense had left town
He was in the doorway lookin' like the Jack of Hearts

He across the mirrored room
"Set it up for everyone", he
Then everyone to do
What they were doin' before he their heads
Then he walked up to a and he asked him with a grin
"Could you kindly tell me what time the show begins?"
he moved into the corner face down like the Jack of Hearts

Backstage the girls were playin' stud by the stairs
Lily had two she was hopin' for a third to match her pair
the streets were fillin' up the window was open wide
A gentle breeze was blowin' you feel it from inside
Lily called another bet and up the Jack of Hearts

Big Jim was no one's he owned the town's only diamond mine
He made his usual entrance lookin' so dandy and so
his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place
He took he wanted to and he laid it all to waste
But his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the of Hearts

Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into
She in through the side door lookin' like a queen without a crown
She fluttered her false eyelashes and in his ear
"Sorry that I'm late", but he didn't seem to hear
He was starin' into over at the Jack of Hearts

"I know seen that face before", Big Jim was thinkin' to himself
"Maybe down in Mexico or a up on somebody's shelf"
But then the began to stamp their feet
And the lights did dim
And in the darkness of the room there was Jim and him
Starin' at the butterfly who just drew the of Hearts

Lily was a princess she was fair skinned and as a child
She did she had to do she had
That certain flash time she smiled
She'd come away from a broken home had lots of affairs
With men in every walk of life which took her
But she'd never met anyone quite like the Jack of

The hangin' judge came in unnoticed and was being and dined
The drillin' in the wall kept up but no one seemed to pay it any
It was known all around that had Jim's ring
And nothing would ever between Lily and the king
No nothin' ever except maybe the Jack of Hearts

Rosemary started drinkin' hard and seein' her reflection in the
She was tired of the tired of playin' the role of Big Jim's wife
She had done a lot of bad things even once tried
Was lookin' to do just one good deed before she
She was gazin' to the riding on the Jack of Hearts

Lily washed her face took her dress off and buried it
"Has your run out?", she laughed at him
"Well I guess you have known it would someday
Be careful not to touch the wall there's a coat of paint
I'm glad to see you're alive you're lookin' like a saint"
Down the footsteps were comin' for the Jack of Hearts

The backstage manager was pacing all by his chair
"There's something funny on" he said "I can just feel it in the air"
He to get the hangin' judge but the hangin' judge was drunk
As the actor hurried by in the costume of a monk
There was no actor anywhere than the Jack of Hearts

Lily's arms were locked the man that she dearly loved to touch
She forgot all about the man she stand
Who her so much
"I've missed you so" she to him and he felt she was sincere
But just beyond the door he felt and fear
Just another in the life of the Jack of Hearts

No one knew the but they say
That it pretty quick
The door to the room burst open and a cold revolver clicked
And Big Jim was there ya couldn't say surprised
Rosemary beside him steady in her eyes
She was Big Jim but she was leanin' to the Jack of Hearts

Two doors down the boys made it through the wall
And cleaned out the safe it's said that they got off with quite a haul
In the darkness by the riverbed they on the ground
For one more member who had business back in
But they couldn't go no further without the of Hearts

The next day was hangin' day the sky was overcast and
Big Jim lay covered up killed by a penknife in the
And on the gallows she didn't even blink
The hangin' judge was sober he hadn't had a
The only person on the scene missin' was the of Hearts

The cabaret was empty now a said "Closed for repair"
Lily had already all of the dye out of her hair
She was 'bout her father who she very rarely saw
Thinkin' 'bout Rosemary and about the law
But of all she was thinkin' 'bout the Jack of Hearts