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

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

He moved across the mirrored room, "Set em up for everyone", he
Then everyone to do what
They've been before he moved their heads
He walked up to a stranger and he asked him a grin
"Would you kindly me, Mister, what time the show begins?"
He moved into the corner, face down like the 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 breeze was blowin', you could feel it from inside
called another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts

Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the town's diamond mine
He made his usual lookin' oh, so dandy and so fine
his bodyguards 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 were no match for the of Hearts

Rosemary combed her and took a carriage 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 staring into space at the Jack of Hearts

Well, I know I've seen face somewhere
Big Jim was thinkin' to
down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's shelf
But then the crowd began to stamp their
And the house did dim
And in the darkness of the there was only Jim and him
Starin' at the 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 from a broken home, had lots of strange affairs
With men in every walk of life who her everywhere
But she'd met anyone quite like the Jack of Hearts

The hangin' judge came in 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 that Lily had Jim's ring
And nothin ever come between Lily and the king
No, ever could except maybe the Jack of Hearts

Rosemary started drinkin' hard and 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, 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, buried it
"Has your luck run out", she at him
"I guess you must've known it would
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 Jack of

The manager was pacing 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 judge 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 arms around the man that she dearly to touch
She forgot all about the man she hated, who hounded her so
"I've you so", she said to him and he thought 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 say it happened pretty quick
The door to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver
And Big Jim was standin' there, you say surprised
Rosemary beside him, steady in her eyes
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 safe, it's 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 business back in
But couldn't go no further without the Jack of Hearts

Well, the next day was day
And the sky was and black
Big Jim lay covered up, by a penknife in the back
And Rosemary on the gallows, boy, she even blink
And the hangin' was sober, Lord, he hadn't had a drink
And the only on the scene missing was the Jack of Hearts

Well, the was quiet 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 thinkin' the Jack of Hearts