Luyện nghe bài hát Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts

The festival was over and the boys were all plannin' for a
The was quiet except for the drillin' in the wall

The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' wheel shut
Anyone with any sense had already left
He was standin' in the doorway like the Jack of Hearts

He moved across the mirrored room, "Set it up for everyone" he
Then everyone to do what they were doin'
Before he their heads

Then he walked up to a stranger and he him with a grin
"Could you tell me, friend, what time the show begins?"
he moved into the corner, face down like the Jack of Hearts

Backstage the were playin' five-card stud by the stairs
Lily had two queens, she was for a third to match her pair

Outside the were fillin' up, the window was open wide
A breeze was blowin', you could feel it from inside
Lily called another bet and drew up the Jack of

Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the only diamond mine
He made his usual entrance so dandy and so fine

With his bodyguards and silver cane and hair in place
He took whatever he wanted to and he it all to waste
But his and silver 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 eyelashes and whispered in his ear
"Sorry, darlin', that I'm late" but he didn't to hear
He was starin' into space at the Jack of Hearts

"I know I've that face before," Big Jim was thinkin' to himself
"Maybe down in or a picture up on somebody's shelf

But then the crowd to stamp their feet and the house lights did dim
And in the of the room there was only Jim and him
at the butterfly who just drew the Jack of Hearts

Lily was a princess, she was fair-skinned and precious as a
She did she had to do
She had that certain flash every time she

come away from a broken home, had lots of strange affairs
With men in every walk of life took her everywhere
But never met anyone quite like the Jack of Hearts

The hangin' judge came in unnoticed and was wined and dined
The in the wall kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind

It was known all around Lily had Jim's ring
And would ever come between Lily and the king
No, nothin' would 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 had done a lot of bad things, even once suicide
Was lookin' to do one good deed before she died
She was gazin' to the future, riding on the Jack of

Lily took her dress off, buried it
"Has luck run out?" she laughed at him
"Well, I guess you must known it would someday"

"Be careful not to the wall, there's a brand-new coat of paint
I'm glad to see you're still alive, lookin' like a saint"
Down the hallway footsteps were comin' for the Jack of

The backstage manager was pacing all around by his
"There's something going on" he said
"I can just it in the air"

He went to get the hangin' judge, but the hangin' judge was
As the leading hurried by in the costume of a monk
There was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of

No one the circumstance
But they say that it pretty quick
The door to the dressing room burst open and a cold clicked

And Big Jim was there, ya couldn't say surprised
Rosemary right him, steady in her eyes
She was with Big Jim but she was to the Jack of Hearts

Two doors down, the finally made it through the wall
And cleaned out the safe
It's said that they got off with a haul

In the darkness by the riverbed they on the ground
For one more who had business back in town
But they couldn't go no further without the of Hearts

The next day was hangin' day, the sky was overcast and
Big Jim lay up, killed by a penknife in the back

And Rosemary on the gallows, she didn't blink
The hangin' judge was sober, he hadn't had a
The only person on the scene was the Jack of Hearts

The cabaret was now, a sign said, "Closed for repair"
Lily had already all of the dye out of her hair

She was thinkin' her father, who she very rarely saw
Thinkin' 'bout Rosemary and thinkin' the law
But most of all she was thinkin' 'bout the Jack of