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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

combed her hair and took 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 seem to
He was into space over at the Jack of Hearts

"I know I've seen that face before," Big Jim was thinkin' to
"Maybe down in Mexico or a 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
Starin' at the butterfly who just the Jack of Hearts

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

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

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

It was known all around that Lily had Jim's
And nothing would ever between Lily and the king
No, nothin' ever except maybe the Jack of Hearts

Rosemary started drinkin' hard and seein' her reflection in the
She was tired of the attention, of playin' the role of Big Jim's wife

She had done a lot of bad things, even once suicide
Was lookin' to do just one good 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 guess you have 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, you're lookin' a saint"
Down the hallway were comin' for the Jack of Hearts

The backstage manager was all around by his chair
"There's funny going on" he said
"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 than the Jack of

No one knew the
But say that it happened pretty quick
The to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver clicked

And Big Jim was there, ya couldn't say surprised
right 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 it through the wall
And cleaned out the bank
said that they got off with quite a haul

In the darkness by the riverbed 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 overcast and
Big Jim lay covered up, killed by a penknife in the

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

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

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