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 with any sense had already town
He was standing in the doorway lookin' like the Jack of

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 tell me, Mister, what time the show begins?"
He moved the corner, face down like the Jack of Hearts

Backstage the girls were playin' stud by the stairs
Lily had two and she was hopin' 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 called bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts

Big Jim was no fool, he owned the town's only diamond mine
He made his entrance 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 silver
They no match for the Jack of Hearts

Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage town
She slipped in through the side door like a queen without a crown
She her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear
"I'm sorry, darlin', that I'm late", but he seem to hear
He was staring into space over at the Jack of

Well, I know I've that face somewhere
Big Jim was to himself
Maybe down in or a picture up on somebody's shelf
But then the crowd began to 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 Jack of

Lily was a princess, she was fair-skinned and as a child
She had that something
It was a kind of a flash every she smiled
She'd come away from a broken home, had lots of strange
men in every walk of life who took her everywhere
But she'd never met anyone quite the Jack of Hearts

The judge came in unnoticed 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 Jim's
And could ever come between Lily and the king
No, nothing ever could except the Jack of Hearts

started drinkin' hard and seein' her reflection in the knife
She was tired of the attention, 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 good deed before she
She was to the future, riding on the Jack of Hearts

Lily took her dress off, buried it
"Has your luck run out", she at him
"I guess you must've known it someday
Be not to touch 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 footsteps comin' for the Jack of Hearts

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

Lily had her arms around the man that she 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 and fear
another night in the life of the Jack of Hearts

Well, no one the circumstance
But they say it happened pretty
The door to the dressing room open 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 to the Jack of Hearts

Two down and the boys finally made it through the wall
Cleaned out the bank safe, it's said 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 they couldn't go no further without the of Hearts

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

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