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

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

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

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

Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the only diamond mine
He made his usual entrance oh, so dandy and so fine
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 bodyguards and his cane
They no match for the Jack of Hearts

Rosemary combed her hair and a carriage into town
She slipped in through the side door lookin' like a queen a crown
She fluttered her eyelashes and whispered in his ear
"I'm sorry, darlin', that I'm late", but he seem to hear
He was staring into over at the Jack of Hearts

Well, I know I've seen that somewhere
Big Jim was thinkin' to
Maybe down in or a picture up on somebody's shelf
But then the began to stamp their feet
And the house 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 and precious as a child
She had certain something
It was a kind of a flash time she smiled
She'd come away from a broken home, had lots of affairs
With men in every walk of life who took her
But she'd never met anyone quite like the of Hearts

The hangin' judge came in and was being wined and dined
The drilling in the wall kept up but no one to pay it any mind
It was known all around that Lily had ring
And nothin could come between Lily and the king
No, ever could except maybe the Jack of Hearts

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

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

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

Lily had her arms around the man she dearly loved to touch
She forgot all 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 hallway he felt and fear
Just another night in the of the Jack of Hearts

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

Two doors and the boys finally made it through the wall
Cleaned out the bank safe, it's said that they got off with quite a
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 day was hangin' day
And the sky was overcast and
Big Jim lay covered up, by a penknife in the back
And Rosemary on the gallows, boy, she didn't even
And the hangin' was sober, Lord, he hadn't had a drink
And the only person on the scene missing was the 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 'bout her father whom she very rarely saw
Thinkin' about Rosemary and about the law
But most of all she was thinkin' the Jack of Hearts