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

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

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

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

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

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

"I know I've seen that face before", Big Jim was to himself
"Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on 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 the Jack of Hearts

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

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

Rosemary started drinkin' and seein' her reflection in the knife
She was tired of the attention tired of the role of Big Jim's wife
She had a lot of bad things even once tried suicide
Was lookin' to do just one good deed 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 your 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 glad to see you're still alive lookin' like a saint"
Down the hallway footsteps were comin' for the Jack of

The backstage manager was pacing all around by his
"There's something going 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 leading actor hurried by in the of a monk
There was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of

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

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

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

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

The cabaret was empty now a 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' Rosemary and thinkin' about the law
But of all she was thinkin' 'bout the Jack of Hearts