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

The festival was the boys were all plannin' for a fall
The cabaret was quiet for the drillin' in the wall
The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' shut down
Anyone with any sense had already left
He was standin' in the doorway lookin' like the of Hearts

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

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

Big Jim was no one's fool he owned the town's 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 were no match for the Jack of Hearts

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

"I I've seen that face before", Big Jim was thinkin' to himself
"Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on shelf"
But then the crowd began to stamp their
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 Jack of

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

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

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

Lily washed her face took her off and buried it away
"Has luck run out?", she laughed at him
"Well I guess you must known it would someday
Be careful not to touch the there's a brand-new coat of paint
I'm to see you're still alive you're lookin' like a saint"
the hallway footsteps were comin' for the Jack of Hearts

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

Lily's arms were around the man that she dearly loved to touch
She forgot all the man she couldn't stand
Who hounded her so
"I've you so" she said to him and he felt she was sincere
But just beyond the he felt jealousy and fear
Just another in the life of the Jack of Hearts

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

Two doors down the boys finally made it the wall
And out the bank safe it's said that they got off with quite a haul
In the by the riverbed they waited 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 and black
Big Jim lay covered up by a penknife in the back
And Rosemary on the gallows she didn't blink
The hangin' judge was sober he had a drink
The only on the scene missin' was the Jack of Hearts

The was empty now a sign 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 thinkin' the law
But of all she was thinkin' 'bout the Jack of Hearts