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

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

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

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

Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the 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 to and he laid it all to waste
But his and his silver cane
were no match for the Jack of Hearts

Rosemary combed her hair and took a into town
She slipped in through the side door lookin' 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 I've seen that face somewhere
Big Jim was thinkin' to
Maybe down in or a picture up on somebody's shelf
But then the crowd to stamp their feet
And the house did dim
And in the of the room there was only Jim and him
Starin' at the who just drew up the Jack of Hearts

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

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

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

took her dress 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 you're still alive and lookin' like a saint"
Down the hallway were comin' for the Jack of Hearts

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

Lily had her arms 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 said to him and he 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 open and a cold clicked
And Big Jim was there, you couldn't say surprised
Rosemary right him, steady in her eyes
She was with Big Jim but she was leanin' to the of Hearts

Two doors down and the boys made it through the wall
Cleaned out the bank safe, said that they got off with quite a haul
And in the darkness of the riverbed, they on the ground
For one more member who had back in town
But couldn't 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 even
And the judge was sober, Lord, he hadn't had a drink
And the only person on the scene was the Jack of Hearts

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