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 for the drilling in the wall
The curfew had been lifted and the gambling wheel down
Anyone with any sense had left town
He was standing in the doorway lookin' the Jack 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 moved their
He walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a
"Would you tell me, Mister, what time the show begins?"
He moved the corner, face 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 was open wide
The breeze 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 his usual entrance lookin' 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 laid it all to
But his bodyguards and his cane
They were no match for the Jack of

Rosemary her hair and took a carriage into town
She slipped in through the side door lookin' a queen without a crown
She fluttered her false and whispered in his ear
"I'm sorry, darlin', that I'm late", but he didn't seem to
He was staring into over at the Jack of Hearts

Well, I know seen that face somewhere
Big Jim was thinkin' to
Maybe down in or a picture up on somebody's shelf
But the crowd began to stamp their feet
And the lights did dim
And in the of the room there 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 as a child
She had that something
It was a kind of a every time she smiled
She'd come away from a broken home, had lots of affairs
With men in walk 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 wined and
The drilling in the wall up but no one seemed to pay it any mind
It was known all that Lily had Jim's ring
And nothin could ever come between Lily and the
No, nothing could except maybe the Jack of Hearts

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

Lily took her off, buried it away
"Has your luck run out", she at him
"I you must've known it would someday
Be careful not to touch the wall, there's a brand-new coat of
I'm glad to see you're still and you're lookin' like a saint"
Down the hallway footsteps were 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 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 loved to
She forgot all the man she hated, who hounded her so much
"I've missed you so", she to him and he thought she was sincere
But in the hallway he felt jealousy and
another night in the life of the Jack of Hearts

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

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 darkness of the riverbed, waited on the ground
For one more member who had business in town
But they couldn't go no further without the 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 Jack of

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 'bout her father whom she very rarely saw
Thinkin' Rosemary and thinkin' about the law
But most of all she was thinkin' about the of Hearts