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

The festival was over the boys were all for a fall
The was quiet except 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 in the doorway lookin' like the Jack of Hearts

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

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

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

Rosemary combed her hair and took a into town
She slipped in through the side door lookin' like a queen 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 into space 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 house did dim
And in the darkness of the there was only 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 time she smiled
come away 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 quite like the Jack of

The hangin' judge came in and was being 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 come between Lily and the king
No nothin' ever would except maybe the of Hearts

Rosemary started drinkin' hard and her reflection in the knife
She was of the attention tired of playin' 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 before she
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 known it would someday
Be careful not to 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 footsteps were comin' for the Jack of Hearts

The backstage manager was pacing all around by his
"There's something funny going on" he said "I can feel it in the air"
He went to get the hangin' judge but the hangin' was drunk
As the leading actor by in the costume 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 about the man she stand
Who hounded her so
"I've missed you so" she said to him and he she was sincere
But just beyond the door he jealousy and fear
Just another in the life of the Jack of Hearts

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
right beside 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 cleaned out the bank safe it's 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 in town
But couldn't go no further 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 Rosemary on the gallows she didn't blink
The judge was sober he hadn't had a drink
The person on the scene missin' was the Jack of Hearts

The was empty 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 and thinkin' about the law
But most of all she was thinkin' 'bout the of Hearts