Joan Baez - Lily Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts

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Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts     4/4     Joan Baez     Bob Dylan

Capo 1st fret	Transcribed by Ken Lee kandvlee@shaw.ca



       / A                             

The / festival was over, and

      / D                                     / A                

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

      / A                

The / cabaret was quiet,

       / D                                 / A 

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

      / D         -             A

The / curfew had been lifted and 

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The / gamblin' wheel shut down,

D         -        A

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. / /





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.