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

The festival was over and the boys were all for a fall
The cabaret was quiet except for the drilling in the
The curfew had been lifted and the wheel shut down
with any sense had already left town
He was standing in the doorway lookin' like the Jack of

He moved the mirrored room, "Set em up for everyone", he said
Then everyone commenced to do
been doin' before 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, down like the Jack of Hearts

Backstage the girls were playin' five-card by the stairs
Lily had two and she was hopin' for a third to match her pair
the streets 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 fool, he owned the town's 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 whatever he wanted to and he it all to waste
But his bodyguards and his cane
were no match for the Jack of Hearts

Rosemary combed her hair and a carriage into town
She slipped in the side door lookin' like a queen without a crown
She fluttered her false 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 of Hearts

Well, I know I've that face somewhere
Big Jim was thinkin' to
Maybe in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's shelf
But then the crowd began to stamp feet
And the lights did dim
And in the darkness of the room was only Jim and him
Starin' at the butterfly who just 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
come away from a broken home, had lots of strange affairs
With men in every of life who took her everywhere
But she'd never met anyone quite like the Jack of

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

Rosemary 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 a lot of bad things, even once tried suicide
Was lookin' to do just one deed before she died
She was to the future, riding on the Jack of Hearts

Lily took her off, buried it away
"Has your luck run out", she 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 hallway footsteps comin' for the Jack of Hearts

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

had her arms around the man that she dearly loved to touch
She forgot all about the man she hated, who her so much
"I've you so", she said to him and he thought she was sincere
But in the hallway he jealousy and fear
Just another in the life of the Jack of Hearts

Well, no one the circumstance
But say it happened pretty quick
The door to the room burst open and a cold revolver clicked
And Big Jim was standin' there, you couldn't say
Rosemary right beside him, steady in her
She was Big Jim but she was leanin' to the Jack of Hearts

Two doors down and the boys finally it through the wall
Cleaned out the bank safe, it's said that got off with quite 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 up, killed by a penknife in the back
And Rosemary on the gallows, boy, she didn't even
And the judge was sober, Lord, he hadn't had a drink
And the only person on the missing was the Jack of Hearts

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