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

The festival was over the boys were all plannin' for a
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 left
He was standin' in the doorway like the Jack of Hearts

He moved across the room
"Set it up for everyone", he
everyone commenced to do
What they were doin' before he turned their
he walked 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 face down like the Jack of Hearts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one knew the but they say
it happened pretty quick
The to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver clicked
And Big Jim was there ya couldn't say surprised
Rosemary right him steady in her eyes
She was Big Jim but she was leanin' 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 who had business back in town
But they couldn't go no without the Jack 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 even
The judge was sober he hadn't had a drink
The only person on the scene missin' was the Jack of

The cabaret was empty now a sign "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 Jack of