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

The festival was over and the boys were all planning for a
The cabaret was quiet for the drilling in the wall
The had been lifted and the gambling wheel shut down
Anyone with any had already 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
Then commenced to do what
They've doin' before he moved their heads
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 playin' five-card by the stairs
Lily had two queens and she was hopin' for a third to match her
Outside the streets fillin' up and the window was open wide
The gentle breeze was blowin', you could feel it inside
Lily called another bet and drew up the Jack of

Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the town's only mine
He made his entrance lookin' oh, so dandy and so fine
his bodyguards and his silver cane and every hair 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 into
She slipped in through the side door lookin' like a queen a crown
She her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear
"I'm sorry, darlin', I'm late", but he didn't seem to hear
He was into space over at the Jack of Hearts

Well, I know I've seen face somewhere
Big Jim was to himself
down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's shelf
But then the crowd began to 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

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

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

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

Lily took her 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 to see you're still alive and you're lookin' like a saint"
Down the hallway footsteps comin' for the Jack of Hearts

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

Lily had her arms around the man that she dearly loved to
She forgot all about the man she hated, who hounded her so
"I've missed you so", she said to him and he thought she was
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 pretty
The door to the dressing room burst and a cold revolver clicked
And Big Jim was standin' there, you say surprised
Rosemary right beside him, in her eyes
She was with Big Jim but she was to the Jack of Hearts

Two doors down and the 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, they waited on the
For one more member who had business back in
But they couldn't go no without the Jack of Hearts

Well, the next day was day
And the sky was and black
Big Jim lay covered up, 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 person on the scene missing was the Jack of Hearts

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