Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts,
you know, there's like 15 verses.
actually know all of them?
Does anybody want to come up
and the boys were playing po -po
except for the drilling in the wall
He your hand and left it in
the gambling wheel shut down
He was standing in the doorway
Looking like a little jack -of -all -trades
He looked across the mirror
Stared up at everyone he saw
And everyone commenced to do
What they were doing before
And he walked up to a stranger
and he glanced him in the grin
Can you kindly tell me, son,
what time this show begins?
And he moved into the corner
and he danced down like a
Backstage the girls were playing
five cards stood by the stair
and she was hoping for a third
and the windows opened wide
A gentle breeze was blowing
you could feel it on your side
And Lily called another bat
who drew up from the jack -o -lantern
Well, Big Jim was no one's fool
And he made his usual entrance
Lookin' so dandy and so fine
With his bodyguards and silver cane
He took whatever he wanted to
and he laid it all to waste
But his bodyguards and silver cane
took no match for the jack
and took a carriage into town
She slipped in through the side door
looking like a queen without a crown
Well, she fluttered her false eyelashes
Sorry, darling, I'm late,
but you didn't seem to care
You were staring into space
over at the jack -o' -lanterns
Big Jim was thinking to himself
Well, maybe down in Mexico
or a picture up on somebody's shelf
and the house lights dimmed
And in the darkness of the room
there was only Jim and Jim
who was just too the jack of hearts
Well, Lily was a princess
She was fair -skinned and
She did whatever she had to
She had that certain flash
She'd come away from a broken home
and lots of strange af fairs
With men in every walk of life
which took her everywhere
quite like the jack of hearts
Well the hanging judge came in
Unnoticed and was being whined
Oh, the drillin' and the war kept up,
but no one seemed to pay it any mind
that a lily had a dream to bring
And nothing would ever come
between a lily and the king
No, nothing would ever come,
Rosemary started drinking hard,
seeing her reflection in the night
She was tired of the attention,
tired of playing the role of victim's wife
Yeah, she had done a lot of bad things,
She was gazing to the future,
reading on the devil's heart
Well, Lily washed her face,
Well, I guess you must have known
There's a brand new coat vane.
I'm glad to see you're still alive.
You're looking like a saint.
Oh, it was the dagger heart.
Well, the backstage manager
was pacing all around by his chair
he said, I can just feel it in the air
He went to get the hanging judge,
but the hanging judge withdrew
As the leading actor hurried by
in the costume of the law
There was no actor anywhere
better than the jack of hearts
Well, no one knew the circumstance,
but they had it happen pretty quick
Yeah, the door to the dressing room
burst open and a cold revolver clicked
And Big Jim was standing there,
you couldn't say surprised
Rosemary right beside him,
toward the jack -o' -lantern
finally made it on through the wall
And closed down the bank safe
It's said that they got off
And in the darkness by the river bed
they waited on the ground
who had some business back in town
But they couldn't go no further,
not without Jack of Hearts
Well, the next day was hangin' day
Scott was overcast and black
A big gym laid covered up
Killed by a penknife in the back
And Rosemary on the gallows
Oh, she didn't even blink
The hanging judge was sober
The only person who could find
Well, the cabaret was empty now,
the sign said close for the day
Lady already taken all of
Well, she was thinking about her father
thinking about the lover most of all
She was thinkin' bout the jack of hearts
