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

The festival was over and the boys were all planning for a
The cabaret was quiet for the drilling in the wall
The curfew had been lifted and the gambling wheel shut
with 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 everyone commenced to do
They've been doin' he moved their heads
He walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a
"Would you kindly tell me, Mister, what the show begins?"
He moved into the corner, face down like the of Hearts

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

Big Jim was no one's fool, he the town's only diamond mine
He made his usual entrance oh, so dandy and so fine
With his bodyguards and his silver cane and every in place
He took whatever he to and he laid it all to waste
But his bodyguards and his cane
were no match for the Jack of Hearts

Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into
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', I'm late", but he didn't seem to hear
He was staring into over at the Jack of Hearts

Well, I know seen that face somewhere
Big Jim was to himself
down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's shelf
But then the crowd to stamp their feet
And the lights did dim
And in the darkness of the room was only Jim and him
Starin' at the butterfly who just drew up the Jack of

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

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

started drinkin' 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 tried suicide
Was lookin' to do just one deed before she died
She was gazin' to the future, on the Jack of Hearts

Lily took her off, buried it away
"Has your run out", she laughed at him
"I guess you known it would someday
Be careful not to the wall, there's a brand-new coat of paint
I'm glad to see still alive and you're lookin' like a saint"
Down the hallway were 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 judge but the hangin' judge was drunk
And the leading actor by in the costume of a monk
But there was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of

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 missed you so", she said to him and he she was sincere
But in the he felt jealousy and fear
Just another night in the life of the Jack of

Well, no one knew the
But they say it happened quick
The door to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver
And Big Jim was there, you couldn't say surprised
Rosemary right beside him, in her eyes
She was with Big Jim but she was to the Jack 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 who had business back in town
But they couldn't go no without the Jack of Hearts

Well, the day was hangin' day
And the sky was and black
Big Jim lay up, killed by a penknife 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 person on the scene missing was the of Hearts

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