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

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

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

Backstage the girls playin' five-card stud by the stairs
had two queens and she was hopin' for a third to match her pair
Outside the streets were up and the window was open wide
The 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 his usual entrance lookin' oh, so dandy and so fine
With his bodyguards and his silver cane and every hair in
He took whatever he wanted to and he it all to waste
But his bodyguards and his cane
They were no match for the Jack of

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

Well, I know I've seen that somewhere
Big Jim was thinkin' to
Maybe in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's shelf
But then the crowd began to stamp their
And the lights did dim
And in the darkness of the there was only Jim and him
Starin' at the butterfly who just drew up the of Hearts

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

The hangin' judge came in unnoticed and was being and dined
The drilling in the kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind
It was known all around that Lily had Jim's
And nothin could ever come between Lily and the
No, nothing ever could maybe the Jack of Hearts

Rosemary started drinkin' hard and her reflection in the knife
She was tired of the attention, tired of 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 Jack of

Lily took her dress off, buried it
"Has your run out", she laughed at him
"I guess you must've known it someday
Be careful not to touch the wall, a brand-new coat of paint
I'm glad to see you're still alive and 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 to get the hangin' judge but the hangin' judge was drunk
And the leading hurried by in the costume of a monk
But there was no actor better than the Jack of Hearts

Lily had her arms around the man 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 she was sincere
But in the hallway he felt and fear
Just another night in the of the Jack of Hearts

Well, no one knew the
But they say it happened quick
The to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver clicked
And Big Jim was standin' there, you 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 and the boys finally made it the wall
Cleaned out the bank safe, it's said that they got off quite a haul
And in the darkness of the riverbed, they waited on the
For one more who had business back in town
But they couldn't go no further without the 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 didn't even
And the hangin' judge was sober, Lord, he had a drink
And the only person on the scene missing was the Jack of

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