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 been and the gambling wheel shut down
with any sense had already left town
He was standing in the doorway lookin' like the 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 stranger and he asked him with a
"Would you kindly me, Mister, what time the show begins?"
He moved into the corner, face down like the Jack of

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

Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the town's diamond mine
He made his usual entrance lookin' oh, so and so fine
With his bodyguards and his silver cane and every in place
He took whatever he wanted to and he it all to waste
But his bodyguards and his silver
were 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 without a
She fluttered her false eyelashes and in his ear
"I'm sorry, darlin', I'm late", but he didn't seem to hear
He was staring 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 up on somebody's shelf
But then the crowd began to stamp their
And the house did dim
And in the of the room 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 certain 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 walk of life who took her everywhere
But she'd never met anyone quite like the of Hearts

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

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

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

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

had her arms around the man that 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 jealousy and
Just another 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 burst open and a cold clicked
And Big Jim was standin' there, you say surprised
Rosemary beside him, steady in her eyes
She was with Big Jim but she was to the Jack of Hearts

Two doors and the boys finally made it through the wall
Cleaned out the bank safe, said that they got off with quite a haul
And in the darkness of the riverbed, waited on the ground
For one more who had business back in town
But they couldn't go no further without the of Hearts

Well, the next day was 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' was sober, Lord, he hadn't had a drink
And the person on the scene missing was the Jack of Hearts

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