Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts (Live)-Joan Baez

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[00:00.00]Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts (Live) - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹)
[00:06.13]The festival was over and the boys
[00:21.83]Were all planning for a fall
[00:25.66]The cabaret was quiet except
[00:27.95]For the drilling in the wall
[00:32.28]The curfew had been lifted and
[00:34.51]The gambling wheel shut down
[00:37.08]Anyone with any sense had
[00:39.48]Already left town
[00:40.92]He was standing in the doorway
[00:43.38]Looking like the Jack of Hearts
[00:50.26]He moved across the mirrored room
[00:52.52]"Set em up for everyone" he said
[00:56.96]Then everyone commenced to do what
[00:59.70]They've been doin' before
[01:01.10]He moved their heads
[01:03.60]He walked up to a stranger
[01:05.76]And he asked him with a grin
[01:08.39]Would you kindly tell me Mister
[01:10.54]What time the show begins
[01:12.61]He moved into the corner
[01:14.87]Face down like the Jack of Hearts
[01:21.71]Backstage the girls were
[01:23.75]Playin' five-card stud by the stairs
[01:28.42]Lily had two queens and she
[01:30.80]Was hopin' for a third to match her pair
[01:34.91]Outside the streets were fillin' up
[01:37.23]And the window was open wide
[01:39.24]The gentle breeze was blowin'
[01:41.17]You could feel it from inside
[01:43.70]Lily called another bet and drew
[01:46.54]Up the Jack of Hearts
[01:53.05]Big Jim was no one's fool
[01:55.92]He owned the town's only diamond mine
[01:59.58]He made his usual entrance lookin' oh
[02:02.56]So dandy and so fine
[02:06.21]With his bodyguards and his
[02:08.20]Silver cane and every hair in place
[02:10.66]He took whatever he wanted to
[02:13.05]And he laid it all to waste
[02:15.22]But his bodyguards and his silver cane
[02:17.63]They were no match for the Jack of Hearts
[02:24.48]Rosemary combed her hair
[02:26.07]And took a carriage into town
[02:30.95]She slipped in through the side
[02:32.87]Door lookin' like a queen without a crown
[02:37.57]She fluttered her false eyelashes
[02:40.01]And whispered in his ear
[02:42.00]"I'm sorry darlin' that I'm late"
[02:44.14]But he didn't seem to hear
[02:46.15]He was staring into space
[02:47.95]Over at the Jack of Hearts
[02:55.47]Well I know I've seen that face somewhere
[02:58.02]Big Jim was thinkin' to himself
[03:02.37]Maybe down in Mexico or
[03:04.50]A picture up on somebody's shelf
[03:08.78]But then the crowd began
[03:10.41]To stamp their feet
[03:11.67]And the house lights did dim
[03:13.36]And in the darkness of the
[03:15.12]Room there was only Jim and him
[03:17.83]Starin' at the butterfly who just
[03:20.42]Drew up the Jack of Hearts
[03:26.91]Lily was a princess she was
[03:29.45]Fair-skinned and precious as a child
[03:33.64]She had that certain something
[03:35.86]It was a kind of a flash every time she smiled
[03:39.91]She'd come away from a broken home
[03:42.47]Had lots of strange affairs
[03:44.32]With men in every walk of life who
[03:47.04]Took her everywhere
[03:48.57]But she'd never met anyone quite
[03:51.35]Like the Jack of Hearts
[03:58.00]The hangin' judge came in unnoticed
[04:00.82]And was being wined and dined
[04:04.83]The drilling in the wall kept up
[04:07.10]But no one seemed to pay it any mind
[04:10.95]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
[04:22.49]Maybe the Jack of Hearts
[04:29.52]Rosemary started drinkin' hard
[04:31.32]And seein' her reflection in the knife
[04:35.66]She was tired of the attention
[04:38.04]Tired of playin' the role of Big Jim's wife
[04:42.31]She'd done a lot of bad things
[04:44.73]Even once tried suicide
[04:46.71]Was lookin' to do just one good
[04:48.90]Deed before she died
[04:50.88]She was gazin' to the future riding
[04:54.08]On the Jack of Hearts
[05:00.39]Lily took her dress off buried it away
[05:06.65]"Has your luck run out" she laughed at him
[05:09.60]"I guess you must've known it would someday
[05:13.20]Be careful not to touch the wall
[05:15.67]There's a brand-new coat of paint
[05:17.91]I'm glad to see you're still alive
[05:20.38]And you're lookin' like a saint"
[05:22.30]Down the hallway footsteps were
[05:24.27]Comin' for the Jack of Hearts
[05:31.60]The backstage manager was pacing
[05:34.12]All around by his chair
[05:37.85]"There's something funny goin' on
[05:39.87]I know I can just feel it in the air"
[05:44.43]He went to get the hangin' judge
[05:47.38]But the hangin' judge was drunk
[05:49.13]And the leading actor hurried by
[05:51.16]In the costume of a monk
[05:53.19]But there was no actor anywhere
[05:56.01]Better than the Jack of Hearts
[06:02.65]Lily had her arms around the man
[06:05.73]That she dearly loved to touch
[06:08.93]She forgot all about the man she hated
[06:11.99]Who hounded her so much
[06:15.52]"I've missed you so" she said to
[06:17.88]Him and he thought she was sincere
[06:20.27]But in the hallway he felt jealousy and fear
[06:24.33]Just another night in the life of the Jack of Hearts
[06:33.31]Well no one knew the circumstance
[06:35.68]But they say it happened pretty quick
[06:40.23]The door to the dressing room
[06:42.34]Burst open and a cold revolver clicked
[06:46.64]And Big Jim was standin' there
[06:49.43]You couldn't say surprised
[06:51.13]Rosemary right beside him
[06:52.67]Steady in her eyes
[06:55.07]She was with Big Jim but she was
[06:58.19]Leanin' to the Jack of Hearts
[07:04.65]Two doors down and the boys finally
[07:08.07]Made it through the wall
[07:11.17]Cleaned out the bank safe it's said
[07:14.13]That they got off with quite a haul
[07:17.66]And in the darkness of the riverbed
[07:19.81]They waited on the ground
[07:22.41]For one more member who had
[07:24.73]Business back in town
[07:26.48]But they couldn't go no further
[07:28.60]Without the Jack of Hearts
[07:35.67]Well the next day was hangin' day
[07:38.06]And the sky was overcast and black
[07:42.45]Big Jim lay covered up killed by a
[07:45.76]Penknife in the back
[07:48.51]And Rosemary on the gallows boy
[07:51.30]She didn't even blink
[07:53.50]And the hangin' judge was sober
[07:55.33]Lord he hadn't had a drink
[07:57.99]And the only person on the scene
[08:00.06]Missing was the Jack of Hearts
[08:05.29]Well the cabaret was quiet now and
[08:08.94]A sign said 'Closed for repair'
[08:13.41]Lily had already taken all of the
[08:17.15]Dye out of her hair
[08:19.79]She was thinkin' 'bout her father
[08:22.07]Whom she very rarely saw
[08:24.47]Thinkin' about Rosemary and
[08:27.14]Thinkin' about the law
[08:28.80]But most of all she was thinkin' about
[08:32.15]The Jack of Hearts