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

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

He moved across the room, "Set em up for everyone", he said
Then everyone to do what
They've been doin' before he their heads
He walked up to a and he asked him with a grin
"Would you tell me, Mister, what time the show 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 was blowin', you could feel it from inside
called another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts

Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the town's only diamond
He made his entrance lookin' oh, so dandy and so fine
With his bodyguards and his silver and every hair in place
He whatever he wanted to and he laid 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 the side door lookin' like a queen without a crown
She her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear
"I'm sorry, darlin', that I'm late", but he didn't to hear
He was into space over at the Jack 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 their feet
And the lights did dim
And in the darkness of the there was only Jim and him
Starin' at the who just drew up the Jack of Hearts

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

The hangin' came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined
The drilling in the wall kept up but no one to pay it any mind
It was known all around that Lily had ring
And could ever come between Lily and the king
No, ever could except maybe the Jack of Hearts

Rosemary started drinkin' hard and seein' her in the knife
She was tired of the attention, of playin' the role of Big Jim's wife
done 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 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, there's a coat of paint
I'm glad to see you're still alive and you're like a saint"
Down the hallway footsteps were for the Jack of Hearts

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

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

Well, no one knew the
But they say it happened quick
The door to the dressing room burst 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 the wall
Cleaned out the bank safe, it's that they got off with quite a haul
And in the darkness of the riverbed, they on the ground
For one more who had business back 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 even blink
And the hangin' judge was sober, Lord, he had a drink
And the person on the scene missing was the Jack of Hearts

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