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

The festival was over and the were all planning for a fall
The cabaret was except for the drilling in the wall
The curfew had been lifted and the wheel shut down
Anyone with any sense had 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
everyone 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, down like the Jack of Hearts

Backstage the girls were five-card stud by the stairs
Lily had two queens and she was 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 feel it 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 and his silver cane
They were no match for the Jack of

Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage town
She slipped in through the side door like 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 staring into space over at the of Hearts

Well, I know I've seen that face
Big Jim was to himself
Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's
But the crowd began to stamp their feet
And the lights did dim
And in the darkness of the room there was Jim and him
Starin' at the butterfly who 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 kind of a flash every she smiled
She'd come away a broken home, had lots of strange affairs
men in every walk of life who took her everywhere
But she'd never met anyone like the Jack of Hearts

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

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

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

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

Lily had her arms around the man that she dearly 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 he felt jealousy and fear
Just another night in the life of the of Hearts

Well, no one knew the
But they say it happened pretty
The to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver 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 down and the boys finally made it through the
Cleaned out the bank safe, it's said that they got off with a haul
And in the darkness of the riverbed, they on the ground
For one more member who had business in town
But couldn't go no further without the Jack 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 Rosemary on the gallows, boy, she even blink
And the hangin' judge was sober, Lord, he hadn't had a
And the only person on the scene missing was the 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
about Rosemary and thinkin' about the law
But most of all she was thinkin' about the of Hearts