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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
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and sing one or two?
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The festival was over
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and the boys were playing po -po
The gallery was quiet
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except for the drilling in the wall
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He your hand and left it in
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the gambling wheel shut down
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Anyone with any sense
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He was standing in the doorway
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Looking like a little jack -of -all -trades
He looked across the mirror
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Stared up at everyone he saw
And everyone commenced to do
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What they were doing before
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And he walked up to a stranger
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and he glanced him in the grin
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Can you kindly tell me, son,
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what time this show begins?
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And he moved into the corner
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and he danced down like a
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jack -o' -lantern
Backstage the girls were playing
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five cards stood by the stair
Lily had two queens
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and she was hoping for a third
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Well outside the streets
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and the windows opened wide
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A gentle breeze was blowing
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you could feel it on your side
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And Lily called another bat
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who drew up from the jack -o -lantern
Well, Big Jim was no one's fool
And he made his usual entrance
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Lookin' so dandy and so fine
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With his bodyguards and silver cane
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And every hair in place
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He took whatever he wanted to
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and he laid it all to waste
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But his bodyguards and silver cane
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took no match for the jack
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al's heart
Rosemary combed her hair
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and took a carriage into town
She slipped in through the side door
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looking like a queen without a crown
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Well, she fluttered her false eyelashes
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and whispered in her ear
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Sorry, darling, I'm late,
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but you didn't seem to care
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You were staring into space
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over at the jack -o' -lanterns
Well, I know I've seen
that face somewhere
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Big Jim was thinking to himself
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Well, maybe down in Mexico
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or a picture up on somebody's shelf
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But then the crowd began
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and the house lights dimmed
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And in the darkness of the room
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there was only Jim and Jim
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Staring at the butterfly
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who was just too the jack of hearts
Well, Lily was a princess
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She was fair -skinned and
She did whatever she had to
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She had that certain flash
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She'd come away from a broken home
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and lots of strange af fairs
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With men in every walk of life
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which took her everywhere
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But she never met anyone
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quite like the jack of hearts
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Well the hanging judge came in
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Unnoticed and was being whined
Oh, the drillin' and the war kept up,
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but no one seemed to pay it any mind
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It was known all around
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that a lily had a dream to bring
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And nothing would ever come
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between a lily and the king
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No, nothing would ever come,
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-o' -lanterns
Rosemary started drinking hard,
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seeing her reflection in the night
She was tired of the attention,
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tired of playing the role of victim's wife
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Yeah, she had done a lot of bad things,
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even once tried suicide
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Was looking to choose
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She was gazing to the future,
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reading on the devil's heart
Well, Lily washed her face,
Has your luck run out?
She laughed.
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Well, I guess you must have known
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There's a brand new coat vane.
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I'm glad to see you're still alive.
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You're looking like a saint.
footstep you're coming.
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Oh, it was the dagger heart.
Well, the backstage manager
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was pacing all around by his chair
Yeah, there's something
funny going on,
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he said, I can just feel it in the air
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He went to get the hanging judge,
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but the hanging judge withdrew
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As the leading actor hurried by
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in the costume of the law
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There was no actor anywhere
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better than the jack of hearts
Well, no one knew the circumstance,
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but they had it happen pretty quick
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Yeah, the door to the dressing room
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burst open and a cold revolver clicked
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And Big Jim was standing there,
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you couldn't say surprised
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Rosemary right beside him,
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toward the jack -o' -lantern
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Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Two doors down the boys
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finally made it on through the wall
And closed down the bank safe
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It's said that they got off
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with quite a haul
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And in the darkness by the river bed
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they waited on the ground
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For one more member
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who had some business back in town
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But they couldn't go no further,
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not without Jack of Hearts
Well, the next day was hangin' day
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Scott was overcast and black
A big gym laid covered up
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Killed by a penknife in the back
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And Rosemary on the gallows
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Oh, she didn't even blink
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The hanging judge was sober
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The only person who could find
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Was a jack of hearts
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Well, the cabaret was empty now,
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the sign said close for the day
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Lady already taken all of
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the dye out of her hair
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Well, she was thinking about her father
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who she very rarely saw
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Thinking about Rosemary,
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thinking about the lover most of all
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She was thinkin' bout the jack of hearts
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