Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of H-Joan Baez

[ti:Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of H] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:From Every Stage] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of H - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹) [00:18.58]The festival was over [00:19.84] [00:20.56]The boys were all planning for a fall [00:23.70] [00:25.26]Cabaret was quiet except for [00:27.83] [00:28.41]The drilling in the wall [00:30.23] [00:32.06]Curfew had been lifted [00:33.30]And the gambling wheel shut down [00:35.74] [00:36.81]Anyone with any sense had already left town [00:39.80] [00:40.99]He was standing in the doorway [00:42.15] [00:43.45]Lookin' like the Jack of Hearts [00:46.65] [00:50.07]He moved across the mirrored room [00:51.74] [00:52.49]Set it lNem for everyone he said [00:55.04] [00:56.87]Then everyone commenced to do what [00:59.24]They were doin' before he moved their heads [01:01.65] [01:03.56]Then he walked up to a stranger [01:04.94] [01:05.59]And he asked him with a grin [01:07.23] [01:08.17]Could you kindly tell me Mr [01:09.45] [01:10.21]What time the show begins [01:11.32] [01:12.69]Then he moved into the corner [01:13.89] [01:14.92]Face down like the Jack of Hearts [01:18.19] [01:21.67]Backstage the girls were playin' five-card [01:24.09] [01:24.63]Stud by the stairs [01:26.11] [01:28.42]Lily had two queens she was hopin' for [01:30.98]A third to match her pair [01:33.71] [01:34.93]Outside the streets were fillin' up [01:36.58] [01:37.19]The window was open wide [01:38.17] [01:39.30]A gentle breeze was blowing [01:40.75]You could feel it from inside [01:42.64] [01:43.99]Lily called another bet [01:45.35] [01:46.18]And drew up the Jack of Hearts [01:50.16] [01:53.09]Big Jim was no one's fool [01:54.71] [01:55.27]He owned the town's only diamond mine [01:57.43] [01:59.63]He made his usual entrance lookin' [02:02.29]Oh so dandy and so fine [02:04.69] [02:06.27]With his bodyguards and silver cane [02:07.89] [02:08.59]And every hair in place [02:10.04] [02:10.78]He took whatever he wanted to [02:12.94]And he laid it all to waste [02:14.33] [02:15.31]But his bodyguards and silver cane were [02:17.51]No match for the Jack of Hearts [02:20.70] [02:24.53]Rosemary combed her hair [02:26.02] [02:26.69]And took a carriage into town [02:28.81] [02:30.94]She slipped in through the side door lookin' [02:33.78]Like a queen without a crown [02:35.66] [02:37.66]She fluttered her false eyelashes [02:39.47] [02:40.02]And whispered in his ear [02:41.56] [02:42.12]I'm sorry darlin' that I'm late [02:44.42]But he didn't seem to hear [02:45.61] [02:46.57]He was staring into space over [02:49.30] [02:49.82]At the Jack of Hearts [02:52.21] [02:55.51]I know I've seen that face somewhere [02:57.17] [02:58.02]Big Jim was thinkin' to himself [03:00.18] [03:02.61]Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up [03:05.68]On somebody's shelf [03:06.73] [03:08.91]But then the crowd began to stamp their feet [03:10.63] [03:11.24]And the house lights did dim [03:12.37] [03:13.38]And in the darkness of the room [03:15.61]There was only Jim and him [03:16.70] [03:18.04]Staring at the butterfly who [03:20.42]Just drew up the jack of hearts [03:23.45] [03:27.06]Lily was a princess she was fair-skinned [03:30.06]And precious as a child [03:31.37] [03:33.66]She had that certain something [03:34.67] [03:35.89]It was a kind of a flash every time she smiled [03:39.63] [03:40.25]She'd come away from a broken home [03:41.98] [03:42.52]Had lots of strange affairs [03:43.59] [03:44.62]With men in every walk of life [03:46.17] [03:46.90]Who took her everywhere [03:47.70] [03:49.02]But she'd never met anyone quite [03:51.86]Like the jack of hearts [03:52.99] [03:58.21]The hangin' judge came in unnoticed [04:00.82] [04:01.35]And was being wined and dined [04:02.75] [04:05.16]The drilling in the wall kept up [04:07.05]But no one seemed to pay it any mind [04:08.89] [04:11.32]It was known all around that Lily had Jim's ring [04:14.61] [04:15.90]And nothin' would ever come [04:17.60]Between Lily and the king [04:19.16] [04:20.26]No nothing ever would 'cept [04:23.25]Maybe the jack of hearts [04:25.97] [04:29.50]Rosemary started drinkin' hard [04:31.01] [04:31.63]And seein' her reflection in the knife [04:33.67] [04:35.93]She was tired of the attention [04:37.03] [04:38.23]Tired of playin' the role of big Jim's wife [04:40.69] [04:42.56]She had done a lot of bad things [04:44.67]Even once tried suicide [04:45.69] [04:47.14]Was lookin' to do just one good deed [04:49.44]Before she died [04:50.24] [04:51.35]She was gazin' to the future [04:52.62] [04:53.84]Riding on the jack of hearts [04:55.51] [05:00.61]Lily took her dress off buried it away [05:04.95] [05:07.06]Has your luck run out She laughed at him [05:09.53]I guess she must have known [05:10.92]It would someday [05:11.77] [05:13.90]Be careful not to touch the wall [05:15.53] [05:16.14]There's a brand-new coat of paint [05:17.34] [05:18.27]I'm glad to see you're still alive [05:19.90] [05:20.56]And you're lookin' like a saint [05:21.69] [05:22.90]Down the hallway footsteps [05:24.36] [05:25.14]Were comin' for the jack of hearts [05:28.21] [05:31.80]The backstage manager was pacing [05:34.67]All around by his chair [05:36.93] [05:38.35]There's something funny going on [05:39.86] [05:40.40]I know I can just feel it in the air [05:42.76] [05:45.08]He went to get the hangin' judge [05:47.24]But the hangin' judge was drunk [05:48.55] [05:49.51]And the leading actor hurried by [05:51.11] [05:51.67]In the costume of a monk [05:52.83] [05:53.85]But there was no actor anywhere better [05:56.72]Than the jack of hearts [05:59.96] [06:03.20]Lily's had her arms around the man [06:05.28] [06:06.25]She dearly loved to touch [06:07.37] [06:09.53]She forgot all about the man she hated [06:12.33] [06:12.90]Who hounded her so much [06:14.95] [06:16.11]I've missed you so she said to him [06:17.96] [06:18.47]And he thought she was sincere [06:19.61] [06:20.63]Butin the whole way he felt [06:21.90] [06:23.01]Jealousy and fear [06:23.77] [06:25.25]Just another night in the life [06:27.79]Of the jack of hearts [06:31.44] [06:33.79]Well no one knew the circumstance [06:35.47] [06:36.06]But they say that it happened pretty quick [06:38.74] [06:40.84]The door to the dressing room burst open [06:43.63]And a cold revolver clicked [06:45.87] [06:47.23]And big Jim was standin' there [06:49.51]You couldn't say surprised [06:50.37] [06:51.68]Rosemary right beside him steady in her eyes [06:54.94] [06:55.84]She was with big Jim but she was leanin' [06:58.56]To the jack of hearts [07:01.36] [07:05.34]Two doors down and the boys [07:08.16]Finally made it through the wall [07:10.54] [07:11.82]Cleaned out the bank safe it's said that [07:14.71]They got off with quite a haul [07:17.69] [07:18.42]In the darkness by the riverbed [07:20.07] [07:20.66]They waited on the ground [07:21.76] [07:22.94]For one more member who had business [07:25.48]Back in town [07:26.22] [07:27.09]But they couldn't go no further [07:28.27] [07:29.60]Without the jack of hearts [07:32.47] [07:36.33]Well the next day was hangin' day [07:37.85] [07:38.60]And the sky was overcast and black [07:40.77] [07:43.17]Big Jim lay covered up [07:44.67] [07:45.40]Killed by a penknife in the back [07:47.52] [07:49.47]And Rosemary on the gallows boy [07:51.39] [07:51.95]She didn't even blink [07:52.86] [07:53.99]The hangin' judge was sober Lord [07:56.46]He hadn't had a drink [07:57.45] [07:58.49]And the only person on the scene missing [08:01.25]Was the jack of hearts [08:03.99] [08:07.48]Well the cabaret was quiet now [08:08.96] [08:09.64]A sign said closed for repair [08:11.95] [08:14.33]Lily had already taken all [08:16.39] [08:17.14]Of the dye out of her hair [08:19.93] [08:20.61]She was thinkin' 'bout her father [08:22.04] [08:22.87]Whom she very rarely saw [08:24.18] [08:25.40]Thinkin' about rosemary [08:26.14] [08:27.21]And thinkin' about the law [08:28.68] [08:29.59]But most of all she was thinkin' [08:32.56]About the jack of hearts