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

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

He moved across the room, "Set em up for everyone", he said
Then everyone to do what
They've been doin' before he their heads
He walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a
"Would you kindly tell me, Mister, time the show begins?"
He moved the corner, face down like the Jack of Hearts

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

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

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

Well, I know seen that face somewhere
Big Jim was thinkin' to
Maybe down in or a picture up on somebody's shelf
But then the crowd began to stamp feet
And the house did dim
And in the darkness of the room there was Jim and him
Starin' at the butterfly who drew up the Jack of Hearts

Lily was a princess, she was fair-skinned and as a child
She had that something
It was a kind of a every time she smiled
come away from a broken home, had lots of strange affairs
With men in every walk of life who took her
But she'd never met anyone like the Jack of Hearts

The hangin' came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined
The drilling in the wall up but no one seemed to pay it any mind
It was known all around that had Jim's ring
And nothin could come between Lily and the king
No, ever could except maybe the Jack 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'd done a lot of bad things, even once tried
Was lookin' to do just one good before she died
She was gazin' to the future, riding on the of Hearts

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

The backstage was pacing all around by his chair
"There's something funny on, I know, I can just feel it in the air"
He went to get the hangin' judge but the judge was drunk
And the leading actor hurried by in the costume of a
But there was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of

Lily had her around the man that she dearly loved to touch
She forgot all about the man she hated, who her so much
"I've missed you so", she said to him and he thought she was
But in the hallway he felt and fear
Just night in the life of the Jack of Hearts

Well, no one the circumstance
But they say it happened pretty
The door to the room burst open and a cold revolver clicked
And Big Jim was there, you couldn't say surprised
Rosemary beside him, steady in her eyes
She was with Big Jim but she was to the Jack of Hearts

Two doors down and the boys finally made it through the
Cleaned out the bank safe, it's said they got off with quite a haul
And in the darkness of the riverbed, they on the ground
For one more who had business back in town
But they couldn't go no further the Jack of Hearts

Well, the day was hangin' day
And the sky was overcast and
Big Jim lay covered up, killed by a penknife in the
And Rosemary on the gallows, boy, she even blink
And the judge was sober, Lord, he hadn't had a drink
And the person on the scene missing was the Jack of Hearts

Well, the cabaret was quiet now and a sign said, 'Closed for
Lily had already taken all of the dye out of her
She was thinkin' 'bout her whom she very rarely saw
Thinkin' Rosemary and thinkin' about the law
But most of all she was about the Jack of Hearts