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

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

He across the mirrored room, "Set em up for everyone", he said
Then commenced to do what
They've been doin' before he moved their
He walked up to a and he asked him with 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 were 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 fillin' up and the was open wide
The gentle breeze was blowin', you could it from inside
Lily called another bet and drew up the Jack of

Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the only diamond mine
He made his usual entrance lookin' oh, so dandy and so
With his and his silver cane and every hair in place
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

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

Well, I know I've seen face somewhere
Big Jim was to himself
Maybe down in Mexico or a up on somebody's shelf
But then the began to stamp their feet
And the lights did dim
And in the darkness of the room there was 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 that 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 quite like the Jack of Hearts

The hangin' judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and
The drilling in the wall 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 and the king
No, nothing could except maybe the Jack of Hearts

Rosemary started hard and seein' her reflection in the knife
She was tired of the attention, tired of playin' the role of Big Jim's
She'd done a lot of bad things, even once suicide
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, it away
"Has luck run out", she laughed at him
"I guess you must've known it someday
Be careful not to touch the wall, there's a coat of paint
I'm glad to see you're still alive and you're like a saint"
the hallway footsteps were comin' for the Jack of Hearts

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

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

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

Two doors down and the boys finally made it through the
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 they go no further without the Jack of Hearts

Well, the next day was day
And the sky was overcast and
Big Jim lay covered up, killed by a 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 on the scene missing was the Jack of Hearts

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