Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts,
you know, there's like 15 verses.
So does anybody here
actually know all of them?
Does anybody want to come up
and sing one or two?
The festival was over
and the boys were playing po -po
The gallery was quiet
except for the drilling in the wall
He your hand and left it in
the gambling wheel shut down
Anyone with any sense
had already left town
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
he moved a head
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
jack -o' -lantern
Backstage the girls were playing
five cards stood by the stair
Lily had two queens
and she was hoping for a third
to match her pair
Well outside the streets
were filling up
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
He opened the town's
only dine -in -mine
And he made his usual entrance
Lookin' 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 silver cane
took no match for the jack
al's heart
Rosemary combed her hair
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
and whispered in her ear
Sorry, darling, I'm late,
but you didn't seem to care
You were staring into space
over at the jack -o' -lanterns
Well, I know I've seen
that face somewhere
Big Jim was thinking to himself
Well, maybe down in Mexico
or a picture up on somebody's shelf
But then the crowd began
to stomp their feet
and the house lights dimmed
And in the darkness of the room
there was only Jim and Jim
Staring at the butterfly
who was just too the jack of hearts
Well, Lily was a princess
She was fair -skinned and
precious as a child
She did whatever she had to
She had that certain flash
every time she smiled
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
But she never met anyone
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
It was known all around
that a lily had a dream to bring
And nothing would ever come
between a lily and the king
No, nothing would ever come,
except maybe the jack
-o' -lanterns
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,
even once tried suicide
Was looking to choose
one more good deed
be fore she died
She was gazing to the future,
reading on the devil's heart
Well, Lily washed her face,
took her dress off,
and buried it away
Has your luck run out?
She laughed.
Well, I guess you must have known
it would someday.
Oh, be careful not to
touch the wall.
There's a brand new coat vane.
I'm glad to see you're still alive.
You're looking like a saint.
Oh, that's the hallway
footstep you're coming.
Oh, it was the dagger heart.
Well, the backstage manager
was pacing all around by his chair
Yeah, there's something
funny going on,
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,
steady in her ride
She was with Big Jim,
but she was a -leaning
toward the jack -o' -lantern
Two doors down the boys
finally made it on through the wall
And closed down the bank safe
It's said that they got off
with quite a haul
And in the darkness by the river bed
they waited on the ground
For one more member
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
He hadn't had a drink
The only person who could find
he was missing
Was a jack of hearts
Well, the cabaret was empty now,
the sign said close for the day
Lady already taken all of
the dye out of her hair
Well, she was thinking about her father
who she very rarely saw
Thinking about Rosemary,
thinking about the lover most of all
She was thinkin' bout the jack of hearts
Mary Lee's Corvette 
