Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts-Joan Baez

[ti:Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:The Essential Joan Baez Live - The Electric Tracks] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹) [00:18.87]The festival was over and the boys [00:21.47]Were all planning for a fall [00:25.51]The cabaret was quiet except [00:28.16]For the drilling in the wall [00:32.21]The curfew had been lifted and [00:33.99]The gambling wheel shut down [00:36.85]Anyone with any sense had [00:38.83]Already left town [00:40.78]He was standing in the doorway [00:43.17]Looking like the Jack of Hearts [00:50.04]He moved across the mirrored room [00:52.48]"Set em up for everyone" he said [00:56.85]Then everyone commenced to do what [00:59.18]They've been doin' before [01:00.83]He moved their heads [01:03.52]He walked up to a stranger [01:05.61]And he asked him with a grin [01:08.13]Would you kindly tell me Mister [01:10.13]What time the show begins [01:12.58]He moved into the corner [01:13.90] [01:14.71]Face down like the Jack of Hearts [01:21.64]Backstage the girls were [01:23.84]Playin' five-card stud by the stairs [01:28.21]Lily had two queens and she [01:30.51]Was hopin' for a third to match her pair [01:34.82]Outside the streets were fillin' up [01:37.08]And the window was open wide [01:39.23]The gentle breeze was blowin' [01:41.17]You could feel it from inside [01:43.92]Lily called another bet and drew [01:46.70]Up the Jack of Hearts [01:53.08]Big Jim was no one's fool [01:55.23]He owned the town's only diamond mine [01:59.47]He made his usual entrance lookin' oh [02:02.72]So dandy and so fine [02:06.15]With his bodyguards and his [02:07.72]Silver cane and every hair in place [02:10.63]He took whatever he wanted to [02:12.90]And he laid it all to waste [02:15.12]But his bodyguards and his silver cane [02:17.27]They were no match for the Jack of Hearts [02:24.38]Rosemary combed her hair [02:26.39]And took a carriage into town [02:30.76]She slipped in through the side [02:32.97]Door lookin' like a queen without a crown [02:37.45]She fluttered her false eyelashes [02:39.54]And whispered in his ear [02:41.94]"I'm sorry darlin' that I'm late" [02:44.25]But he didn't seem to hear [02:46.34]He was staring into space [02:47.89]Over at the Jack of Hearts [02:55.31]Well I know I've seen that face somewhere [02:57.77]Big Jim was thinkin' to himself [03:02.34]Maybe down in Mexico or [03:04.48]A picture up on somebody's shelf [03:08.66]But then the crowd began [03:10.09]To stamp their feet [03:11.14]And the house lights did dim [03:13.19]And in the darkness of the [03:14.76]Room there was only Jim and him [03:17.71]Starin' at the butterfly who just [03:20.23]Drew up the Jack of Hearts [03:26.81]Lily was a princess she was [03:28.99]Fair-skinned and precious as a child [03:33.35]She had that certain something [03:35.80]It was a kind of a flash every time she smiled [03:39.73]She'd come away from a broken home [03:42.20]Had lots of strange affairs [03:44.22]With men in every walk of life who [03:46.67]Took her everywhere [03:47.44]But she'd never met anyone quite [03:51.54]Like the Jack of Hearts [03:58.06]The hangin' judge came in unnoticed [04:00.97]And was being wined and dined [04:04.67]The drilling in the wall kept up [04:06.78]But no one seemed to pay it any mind [04:10.85]It was known all around that Lily had Jim's ring [04:15.59]And nothin could ever come between Lily and the king [04:20.06]No nothing ever could except [04:22.83]Maybe the Jack of Hearts [04:29.23]Rosemary started drinkin' hard [04:30.91]And seein' her reflection in the knife [04:35.42]She was tired of the attention [04:37.93]Tired of playin' the role of Big Jim's wife [04:42.11]She'd done a lot of bad things [04:44.08]Even once tried suicide [04:45.15] [04:46.69]Was lookin' to do just one good [04:48.87]Deed before she died [04:50.95]She was gazin' to the future riding [04:53.49]On the Jack of Hearts [04:55.01] [05:00.13]Lily took her dress off buried it away [05:06.61]"Has your luck run out" she laughed at him [05:09.05]"I guess you must've known it would someday [05:13.35]Be careful not to touch the wall [05:15.59]There's a brand-new coat of paint [05:17.78]I'm glad to see you're still alive [05:19.99]And you're lookin' like a saint" [05:22.33]Down the hallway footsteps were [05:24.74]Comin' for the Jack of Hearts [05:31.54]The backstage manager was pacing [05:34.08]All around by his chair [05:37.71]"There's something funny goin' on [05:39.75]I know I can just feel it in the air" [05:44.44]He went to get the hangin' judge [05:46.59]But the hangin' judge was drunk [05:48.90]And the leading actor hurried by [05:51.00]In the costume of a monk [05:53.07]But there was no actor anywhere [05:55.74]Better than the Jack of Hearts [06:02.52]Lily had her arms around the man [06:05.55]That she dearly loved to touch [06:08.84]She forgot all about the man she hated [06:12.22]Who hounded her so much [06:15.40]"I've missed you so" she said to [06:17.62]Him and he thought she was sincere [06:20.17]But in the hallway he felt jealousy and fear [06:24.60]Just another night in the life of the Jack of Hearts [06:33.16]Well no one knew the circumstance [06:34.95]But they say it happened pretty quick [06:40.08]The door to the dressing room [06:42.07]Burst open and a cold revolver clicked [06:46.44]And Big Jim was standin' there [06:48.74]You couldn't say surprised [06:50.94]Rosemary right beside him [06:52.71]Steady in her eyes [06:54.96]She was with Big Jim but she was [06:57.64]Leanin' to the Jack of Hearts [07:01.11] [07:04.69]Two doors down and the boys finally [07:07.77]Made it through the wall [07:11.24]Cleaned out the bank safe it's said [07:13.94]That they got off with quite a haul [07:17.62]And in the darkness of the riverbed [07:19.51]They waited on the ground [07:22.30]For one more member who had [07:24.40]Business back in town [07:26.47]But they couldn't go no further [07:28.41]Without the Jack of Hearts [07:35.52]Well the next day was hangin' day [07:37.93]And the sky was overcast and black [07:42.54]Big Jim lay covered up killed by a [07:45.75]Penknife in the back [07:48.39]And Rosemary on the gallows boy [07:51.31]She didn't even blink [07:53.44]And the hangin' judge was sober [07:55.20]Lord he hadn't had a drink [07:57.60]And the only person on the scene [07:59.89]Missing was the Jack of Hearts [08:06.57]Well the cabaret was quiet now and [08:08.74]A sign said 'Closed for repair' [08:13.40]Lily had already taken all of the [08:16.64]Dye out of her hair [08:19.63]She was thinkin' 'bout her father [08:21.87]Whom she very rarely saw [08:24.59]Thinkin' about Rosemary and [08:25.89]Thinkin' about the law [08:28.83]But most of all she was thinkin' about [08:31.77]The Jack of Hearts