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

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

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

Backstage the girls were playin' five-card stud by the
Lily had two queens and she was for a third to match her pair
the streets 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 oh, so dandy and so fine
With his bodyguards and his silver and every hair in place
He took he wanted to and he laid it all to waste
But his bodyguards and his silver
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 fluttered her false eyelashes and in his ear
"I'm sorry, darlin', that I'm late", but he seem to hear
He was into space over at the Jack of Hearts

Well, I I've seen that face somewhere
Big Jim was to himself
Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on shelf
But the crowd began to stamp their feet
And the house did dim
And in the of the room there was only Jim and him
Starin' at the butterfly who drew up the Jack of Hearts

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

The hangin' judge came in unnoticed and was wined and dined
The drilling in the kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind
It was known all that Lily had Jim's ring
And could ever come between Lily and the king
No, nothing ever could except maybe the 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 a lot of bad things, even once tried suicide
Was lookin' to do just one good deed before she
She was gazin' to the future, riding on the Jack of

Lily took her dress off, it away
"Has your luck run out", she at him
"I you must've 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 still alive and you're lookin' a saint"
Down the footsteps were comin' for the Jack of Hearts

The backstage manager was pacing all 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' judge was
And the leading actor by in the costume of a monk
But there was no actor anywhere better than the of Hearts

Lily had her arms the man that she dearly loved to touch
She forgot all about the man she hated, who her so much
"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 of the Jack of Hearts

Well, no one the circumstance
But they say it happened pretty
The door to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver
And Big Jim was standin' there, you say surprised
Rosemary right beside him, steady in her
She was with Big Jim but she was leanin' to the Jack of

Two doors and the boys finally made it through the wall
Cleaned out the bank safe, it's said that they got off 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 further the Jack of Hearts

Well, the next day was day
And the sky was overcast and
Big Jim lay covered up, by a penknife in the back
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 of Hearts

Well, the cabaret was quiet now and a sign said, 'Closed for
had already taken 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 most of all she was thinkin' about the of Hearts