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

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

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

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

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

Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage town
She slipped in through the side door lookin' like a without a crown
She fluttered her false and whispered in his ear
"Sorry darlin' that I'm late", but he seem to hear
He was starin' into space at the Jack of Hearts

"I know seen that face before", Big Jim was thinkin' to himself
"Maybe down in Mexico or a up on somebody's shelf"
But then the crowd began to stamp feet
And the lights did dim
And in the of the room there was only Jim and him
Starin' at the butterfly who drew 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 flash every time she smiled
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 anyone quite like the of Hearts

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

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

Lily washed her face took her dress off and it away
"Has your run out?", she laughed at him
"Well I guess you must have known it 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 comin' for the Jack of Hearts

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

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

No one knew the but they say
That it happened pretty
The door to the dressing burst open and a cold 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 leanin' to the of Hearts

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

The next day was hangin' day the sky was overcast and
Big Jim lay covered up killed by a penknife in the
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 said "Closed for repair"
Lily had already taken all of the dye out of her
She was thinkin' 'bout her who she very rarely saw
Thinkin' Rosemary and thinkin' about the law
But most of all she was thinkin' 'bout the of Hearts