Lilly Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts Chords

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 ThDe / festival was over, and

 The / boGys were all plannin' for a / fall. D

 The / caDbaret was quiet,

 Ex - / ceGpt for the drillin' in the / wall. D

 The / cuGrfew had been lifted andD

 The / gaAmblin' wheel shut down, D

GAnyone with any senDse,

 Had / a -A ready left towAn.

 He was / standDin' in the doorway

GLookin' like the Jack Aof Hear - / arts. / /D

He / moved across the mirrored room,

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

Then / everyone commenced to do,

What / they'd been doin',

Be - fore he moved their / heads.

Then he / walked up to a stranger, and

He / asked him with a grin,

"Could you / kindly tell me, mister,

What / time the show be - gins?"

He / moved into the corner,

Face down like the Jack of Hear - / arts

Back - stage the girls were playin'

Five-card stud by the / stairs,

Lily had two queens,

She was / hopin' for a third,

To match her / pair.

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

A / window was open wide,

A / gentle breeze was blowin',

You could / feel it from in - side.

Lily called a - nother bet, and

Drew up the Jack of Hear - / arts.

Big Jim was no one's fool,

He owned the town's only diamond / mine,

He / made his usual entrance,

Lookin' all so dandy and so / fine.

With his / bodyguards and silver cane, and

Every hair in place,

He / took whatever he wanted to, and

He / laid it all to waste,.

But his / bodyguards and his silver cane,

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

Rose - / mary co - ombed her hair, and

Took the carriage into / town,

She / slipped into the side door,

Lookin' like a queen without a / crown.

She / fluttered her false eyelashes and

Whispered in his ear,

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

But he / didn't seem to hear.

He was / starin' into space,

Over at the Jack of Hear - / arts.

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

Big Jim was thinkin' to him - / self,

"Maybe down in Mexico or

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

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

The / house lights did dim, and

In the darkness of the room,

There was / only Jim and him,

Starin' at the butterfly,

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

Lily was a princess,

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

She / had that certain something

Was a kind of a flash,,

Every time she / smiled.

She'd / come away from a broken home,

Had / lots of strange af - fairs,

With / men in every walk of life,

Who / took her every - where.

But she'd / never met any - one

Quite like the Jack of Hear - / arts.

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

Was being wined and / dined,

The / drillin' in the wall kept up,

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

It was / known all a - round,

That / Lily had Jim's ring, and

Nothing would ever come,

Between / Lily and the king.

No, / nothin' ever could,

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

Rosemary started drinkin' hard and

Seein' her re - flection in the / knife,

She was / tired of the at - tention,

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

She had / done a lot of bad things,

Even / once tried sui - cide,

Was / lookin' to do just one good / deed

Before she died.

She was / gazin' to the future,

Riding on the Jack of Hear - / arts

Lily took her dress off,

Buried it a - / way.

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

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

Be / careful not to touch the wall,

There's a / brand-new coat of paint,

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

You're / lookin' like a saint."

Down the hallway footsteps

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

The / Backstage manager was / pacin',

All a - round by his / chair.

"There's / somethin' funny going on,

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

He / went to get the hangin' judge,

But the / hangin' judge was drunk, and

The / leading actor hurried by

In the / costume of a monk.

But there was no / actor any - where,

Better than the Jack of Hear - / arts.

Lili had her arms a - round the / man

She dearly loved to / touch,

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

She / hated who hounded her so / much,

I / missed you so she said to him, and

He / thought she was sincere

But / in the hallway he fou - ound

Jealousy and fear

Just another night in the / life of the Jack of Hear - / arts

No one knew the circumstance

But / they say that it happened pretty / quick,

The / door to the dressing room burst / open and

A cold revolver / clicked, and

Big Jim was standin' there,

You / couldn't say sur - prised,

Rose - / mary right be - side him,

Steady in her eyes.

She was / with Big Jim,

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

Two doors down and the / boys,

Finally made it through the / wall, and

They / cleaned out the bank safe,

Said they got off with quite a / haul, and

In the / darkness of the riverbed,

They / waited on the ground,

For / one more member,

Who had / business back in town.

But they / couldn't go no further,

With - out the Jack of Hear - / arts.

Well the / next day was hangin' day,

The / sky was overcast and / black,

Big Jim lay covered up,

Killed by a penknife in the / back, and

Rose - / mary on the gallows,

Lord she / didn't even blink,

The / hangin' judge was sober,

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

The / only person on the scene

Missing was the Jack of Hear - / arts

Well the / cabaret was quiet now, and

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

Lily had already taken / all of the dye

Out of her / hair.

She was / thinkin' about her father,

Who she / very rarely saw,

Thinkin' about Rosemary, and

Thinkin' about the law.

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

About the Jack of Hear - / arts.