Lily Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts

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The / festival was over, and

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The / boys were all plannin' for a / fall.

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The / cabaret was quiet,

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Ex - / cept for the drillin' in the / wall.

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The / curfew had been lifted and

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The / gamblin' wheel shut down,

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Anyone with any sense,

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Had / a - ready left town.

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He was / standin' in the doorway

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Lookin' like the Jack of Hear - / arts. / /

Verse 2

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He / moved across the mirrored room,

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"Set em up for everyone," he / said,

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Then / everyone commenced to do,

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What / they'd been doin',

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Be - fore he moved their / heads.

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Then he / walked up to a stranger, and

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He / asked him with a grin,

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"Could you / kindly tell me, friend,

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What / time the show begins?"

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He / moved into the corner,

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Face down like the Jack of Hear - / arts

Verse 3

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Back - stage the girls were playin'

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Five-card stud by the / stairs,

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Lily had two queens,

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She was / hopin' for a third,

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To match her / pair.

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Out - / side the streets were fillin' up, and

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A / window was open wide,

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A / gentle breeze was blowin',

You could / feel it from in - side.

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Lily called a - nother bet, and

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Drew up the Jack of Hear - / arts.

Verse 4

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Big Jim was no one's fool,

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He owned the town's only diamond / mine,

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He / made his usual entrance,

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Lookin' all so dandy and so / fine.

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With his / bodyguards and silver cane, and

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Every hair in place,

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He / took whatever he wanted to, and

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He / laid it all to waste,.

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But his / bodyguards and his silver cane,

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They were / no match for the Jack of Hear - / arts

Verse 5

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Rose - / mary co - ombed her hair, and

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Took the carriage into / town,

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She / slipped into the side door,

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Lookin' like a queen without a / crown.

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She / fluttered her false eyelashes and

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Whispered in his ear,

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"I'm / sorry, darlin', that I'm late,"

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But he / didn't seem to hear.

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He was / starin' into space,

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Over at the Jack of Hear - / arts.

Verse 6

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"Well I / know I've seen that face somewhere,"

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Big Jim was thinkin' to him - / self,

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"Maybe down in Mexico or

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A / picture up - on some - body's / shelf."

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But then the / crowd began to stamp their feet, and

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The / house lights did dim, and

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In the darkness of the room,

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There was / only Jim and him,

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Starin' at the butterfly,

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Who / just up drew up the Jack of Hear - / arts

Verse 7

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Lily was a princess,

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She was / fair-skinned and precious as a / child.

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She / did whatever she had to do,

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She / had that certain flash

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Every time she / smiled.

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She'd / come away from a broken home,

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Had / lots of strange af - fairs,

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With / men in every walk of life,

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Who / took her every - where.

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But she'd / never met any - one

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Quite like the Jack of Hear - / arts.

Verse 8

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The / hangin' judge came in un - / noticed, and

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Was being wined and / dined,

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The / drillin' in the wall kept up,

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But / no one seemed to pay it any / mind.

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It was / known all a - round,

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That / Lily had Jim's ring, and

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Nothing would ever come,

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Between / Lily and the king.

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No, / nothin' ever could,

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Ex - / cept maybe the Jack of Hear - / arts.

Verse 9

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Rosemary started drinkin' hard and

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Seein' her re - flection in the / knife,

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She was / tired of the at - tention,

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Tired of playin' the role of Big Jim's / wife.

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She had / done a lot of bad things,

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Even / once tried sui - cide,

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Was / lookin' to do just one good / deed

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Before she died.

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She was / gazin' to the future,

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Riding on the Jack of Hear - / arts

Verse 10

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Lily took her dress off,

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Buried it a - / way.

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"Has your / luck run out?" she laughed at him,

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"I / guess you must have known it would some - / day.

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Be/careful not to touch the wall’

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There’s a /brand-new coat of paint,

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I'm / glad to see you're still alive, and

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You're / lookin' like a saint."

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Down the hallway footsteps

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Were / comin' for the Jack of Hear - / arts

Verse 11

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The / Backstage manager was / pacin',

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All a - round by his / chair.

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"There's / somethin' funny going on,

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" I / know, I can just feel it in the / air."

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He / went to get the hangin' judge,

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But the / hangin' judge was drunk, and

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The / leading actor hurried by

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In the / costume of a monk.

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But there was no / actor any - where,

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Better than the Jack of Hear - / arts.

Verse 12

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Lili had her arms a - round the / man

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She dearly loved to / touch,

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She for - / got all a - bout the man,

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She / hated who hounded her so / much,

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I / missed you so she said to him, and

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He / thought she was sincere

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But / in the hallway he fou - ound

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Jealousy and fear

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Just another night in the /

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life of the Jack of Hear - / arts

Verse 13

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No one knew the circumstance

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But / they say that it happened pretty / quick,

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The / door to the dressing room burst / open and

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A cold revolver / clicked, and

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Big Jim was standin' there,

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You / couldn't say sur - prised,

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Rose - / mary right be - side him,

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Steady in her eyes.

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She was / with Big Jim,

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But she was / leanin' to the Jack of Hear - / arts

Verse 14

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Two doors down and the / boys,

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Finally made it through the / wall, and

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They / cleaned out the bank safe,

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Said they got off with quite a / haul, and

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In the / darkness of the riverbed,

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They / waited on the ground,

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For / one more member,

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Who had / business back in town.

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But they / couldn't go no further,

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With - out the Jack of Hear - / arts.

Verse 15

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Well the / next day was hangin' day,

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The / sky was overcast and / black,

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Big Jim lay covered up,

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Killed by a penknife in the / back, and

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Rose - / mary on the gallows,

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Lord she / didn't even blink,

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The / hangin' judge was sober,

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Lord, he / hadn't had a drink and,

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The / only person on the scene

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Missing was the Jack of Hear - / arts

Verse 16

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Well the / cabaret was quiet now, and

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A / sign said, "Closed for re - / pair,"

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Lily had already taken / all of the dye

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Out of her / hair.

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She was / thinkin' about her father,

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Who she / very rarely saw,

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Thinkin' about Rosemary, and

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Thinkin' about the law.

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But, / most of a - all she was / thinkin'

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About the Jack of Hear - / arts.