《Lily， Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts》歌词

[00:09:44] The festival was over the boys were all plannin' for a fall

[00:09:44] The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin' in the wall

[00:09:44] The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' wheel shut down

[00:09:44] Anyone with any sense had already left town

[00:09:44] He was standin' in the doorway lookin' like the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] He moved across the mirrored room

[00:09:44] "Set it up for everyone", he said

[00:09:44] Then everyone commenced to do

[00:09:44] What they were doin' before he turned their heads

[00:09:44] Then he walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin

[00:09:44] "Could you kindly tell me friend what time the show begins?"

[00:09:44] Then he moved into the corner face down like the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] Backstage the girls were playin' five-card stud by the stairs

[00:09:44] Lily had two queens she was hopin' for a third to match her pair

[00:09:44] Outside the streets were fillin' up the window was open wide

[00:09:44] A gentle breeze was blowin' you could feel it from inside

[00:09:44] Lily called another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] Big Jim was no one's fool he owned the town's only diamond mine

[00:09:44] He made his usual entrance lookin' so dandy and so fine

[00:09:44] With his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place

[00:09:44] He took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste

[00:09:44] But his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into town

[00:09:44] She slipped in through the side door lookin' like a queen without a crown

[00:09:44] She fluttered her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear

[00:09:44] "Sorry darlin' that I'm late", but he didn't seem to hear

[00:09:44] He was starin' into space over at the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] "I know I've seen that face before", Big Jim was thinkin' to himself

[00:09:44] "Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's shelf"

[00:09:44] But then the crowd began to stamp their feet

[00:09:44] And the house lights did dim

[00:09:44] And in the darkness of the room there was only Jim and him

[00:09:44] Starin' at the butterfly who just drew the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] Lily was a princess she was fair skinned and precious as a child

[00:09:44] She did whatever she had to do she had

[00:09:44] That certain flash every time she smiled

[00:09:44] She'd come away from a broken home had lots of strange affairs

[00:09:44] With men in every walk of life which took her everywhere

[00:09:44] But she'd never met anyone quite like the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] The hangin' judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined

[00:09:44] The drillin' in the wall kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind

[00:09:44] It was known all around that Lily had Jim's ring

[00:09:44] And nothing would ever come between Lily and the king

[00:09:44] No nothin' ever would except maybe the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] Rosemary started drinkin' hard and seein' her reflection in the knife

[00:09:44] She was tired of the attention tired of playin' the role of Big Jim's wife

[00:09:44] She had done a lot of bad things even once tried suicide

[00:09:44] Was lookin' to do just one good deed before she died

[00:09:44] She was gazin' to the future riding on the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] Lily washed her face took her dress off and buried it away

[00:09:44] "Has your luck run out?", she laughed at him

[00:09:44] "Well I guess you must have known it would someday

[00:09:44] Be careful not to touch the wall there's a brand-new coat of paint

[00:09:44] I'm glad to see you're still alive you're lookin' like a saint"

[00:09:44] Down the hallway footsteps were comin' for the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] The backstage manager was pacing all around by his chair

[00:09:44] "There's something funny going on" he said "I can just feel it in the air"

[00:09:44] He went to get the hangin' judge but the hangin' judge was drunk

[00:09:44] As the leading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk

[00:09:44] There was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] Lily's arms were locked around the man that she dearly loved to touch

[00:09:44] She forgot all about the man she couldn't stand

[00:09:44] Who hounded her so much

[00:09:44] "I've missed you so" she said to him and he felt she was sincere

[00:09:44] But just beyond the door he felt jealousy and fear

[00:09:44] Just another night in the life of the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] No one knew the circumstance but they say

[00:09:44] That it happened pretty quick

[00:09:44] The door to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver clicked

[00:09:44] And Big Jim was standin' there ya couldn't say surprised

[00:09:44] Rosemary right beside him steady in her eyes

[00:09:44] She was with Big Jim but she was leanin' to the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] Two doors down the boys finally made it through the wall

[00:09:44] And cleaned out the bank safe it's said that they got off with quite a haul

[00:09:44] In the darkness by the riverbed they waited on the ground

[00:09:44] For one more member who had business back in town

[00:09:44] But they couldn't go no further without the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] The next day was hangin' day the sky was overcast and black

[00:09:44] Big Jim lay covered up killed by a penknife in the back

[00:09:44] And Rosemary on the gallows she didn't even blink

[00:09:44] The hangin' judge was sober he hadn't had a drink

[00:09:44] The only person on the scene missin' was the Jack of Hearts

[00:09:44] The cabaret was empty now a sign said "Closed for repair"

[00:09:44] Lily had already taken all of the dye out of her hair

[00:09:44] She was thinkin' 'bout her father who she very rarely saw

[00:09:44] Thinkin' 'bout Rosemary and thinkin' about the law

[00:09:44] But most of all she was thinkin' 'bout the Jack of Hearts