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

The festival was and the boys were all planning for a fall
The cabaret was except for the drilling in the wall
The curfew had been lifted and the wheel shut down
Anyone with any sense had already left
He was in the doorway lookin' like the Jack of Hearts

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

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

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

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

Well, I know I've seen that somewhere
Big Jim was thinkin' to
Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's
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
at the butterfly who just drew up the Jack of Hearts

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

The judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined
The drilling in the wall kept up but no one seemed to pay it any
It was known all around that Lily had ring
And nothin ever come between Lily and the king
No, nothing ever could except maybe the of Hearts

Rosemary drinkin' hard and seein' her reflection in the knife
She was tired of the attention, of playin' the role of Big Jim's wife
She'd done a lot of bad things, even tried suicide
Was lookin' to do just one good deed before she
She was to the future, riding on the Jack of Hearts

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

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

Lily had her arms around the man that she 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 he felt jealousy and fear
Just another night in the of the Jack of Hearts

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

Two doors down and the boys made it through the wall
Cleaned out the bank safe, it's said that got off with quite a haul
And in the of 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

Well, the next day was day
And the sky was overcast and
Big Jim lay up, killed by a penknife in the back
And Rosemary on the gallows, boy, she even blink
And the hangin' judge was sober, Lord, he had a drink
And the only person on the missing was the Jack of Hearts

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