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

The festival was over and the boys were all for a fall
The cabaret was quiet except for the drilling in the
The curfew had been and the gambling wheel shut down
Anyone any sense had already left town
He was standing in the doorway 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 before he moved their heads
He walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a
"Would you tell me, Mister, what time the show begins?"
He moved into the corner, face like the Jack of Hearts

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

Big Jim was no one's fool, he the town's only diamond mine
He made his usual entrance lookin' oh, so 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 and his silver 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 eyelashes and whispered in his ear
"I'm sorry, darlin', that I'm late", but he didn't seem to
He was staring into space over at the Jack of

Well, I know I've seen face somewhere
Big Jim was thinkin' to
Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on shelf
But the crowd began to stamp their feet
And the lights did dim
And in the of the room there was only Jim and him
Starin' at the butterfly who drew up the Jack of Hearts

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

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

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

Lily her dress off, buried it away
"Has your luck run out", she at him
"I guess you must've known it someday
Be careful not to touch the wall, there's a brand-new coat of
I'm glad to see still alive and 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 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 actor hurried by in the costume of a
But there was no anywhere better than the Jack of Hearts

Lily had her arms around the man that she loved to touch
She all about the man she hated, who hounded 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 night in the life of the Jack of Hearts

Well, no one knew the
But they say it happened pretty
The door to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver
And Big Jim was standin' there, you say surprised
Rosemary right beside him, steady in her
She was Big Jim but she was leanin' to the Jack of Hearts

Two doors down and the boys finally it through the wall
Cleaned out the safe, it's said that they got off with quite a haul
And in the of the riverbed, they waited on the ground
For one more member who had back in town
But they go no further without the Jack of Hearts

Well, the day was hangin' 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 didn't blink
And the hangin' judge was sober, Lord, he had a drink
And the only on the scene missing was the Jack of Hearts

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