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 drillin' in the

The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' shut down
with any sense had already left town
He was standin' in the lookin' like the Jack of Hearts

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

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

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

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

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

his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place
He took whatever he to and he laid it all to waste
But his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the Jack of

Rosemary her hair and took a carriage into town
She slipped in through the side door lookin' like a queen without a

She fluttered her false and whispered in his ear
"Sorry, darlin', that I'm late" but he seem to hear
He was starin' into space at the Jack of Hearts

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

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

Lily was a princess, she was and precious as a child
She did she had to do
She had that certain flash every she smiled

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

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

It was known all around that had Jim's ring
And nothing would come between Lily and the king
No, nothin' ever 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 had done a lot of bad things, once tried suicide
Was to do just one good deed before she died
She was gazin' to the future, riding on the Jack of

took her dress off, buried it away
"Has your luck run out?" she at him
"Well, I you must have known it would someday"

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

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

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

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

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

Two doors down, the boys finally made it the wall
And cleaned out the bank
It's said that got off with quite a haul

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

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

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

The cabaret was empty now, a 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
'bout Rosemary and thinkin' about the law
But most of all she was 'bout the Jack of Hearts