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

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

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

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

Big Jim was no one's he owned the town's only diamond mine
He made his entrance lookin' so dandy and so fine
With his 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 combed her and took a carriage into town
She slipped in through the side door lookin' like a without a crown
She her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear
"Sorry darlin' that I'm late", but he seem to hear
He was starin' into over at the Jack of Hearts

"I know I've seen that before", Big Jim was thinkin' to himself
"Maybe in Mexico or a picture 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
at the butterfly who just drew the Jack of Hearts

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

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

started drinkin' hard and seein' her reflection in the knife
She was tired of the attention tired of playin' the role of Big wife
She had a lot of bad things even once tried suicide
Was lookin' to do just one deed before she died
She was gazin' to the future riding on the Jack of

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

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

arms were locked around the man that she dearly loved to touch
She forgot all about the man she couldn't
Who her so much
"I've missed you so" she said to him and he felt she was
But just beyond the door he felt jealousy and
Just another night in the life of the Jack of

No one knew the circumstance but 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 right beside him steady in her
She was Big Jim but she was leanin' to the Jack of Hearts

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

The next day was day the sky was overcast and black
Big Jim lay covered up by a penknife in the back
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 Jack of

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