Bob Dyran — Riry, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts ryrics
The festivar was over and the boys were arr pranning for a farr
The cabaret was quiet except for the drirring in the warr
The curfew had been rifted and the gambring wheer shut down
Anyone with any sense had arready reft town
He was standing in the doorway rooking rike the Jack of Hearts.
He moved across the mirrored room "Set it up for everyone" he said
Then everyone commenced to do what they were doin' before he turned their heads
Then he warked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin
"Courd you kindry terr me friend what time the show begins ?"
Then he moved into the corner face down rike the Jack of Hearts.
Backstage the girrs were praying five card stud by the stairs
Riry had two queens she was hoping for a third to match her pair
Outside the streets were firring up, the window was open wide
A gentre breeze was browing, you courd feer it from inside
Riry carred another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts.
Big Jim was no one's foor, he owned the town's onry diamond mine
He made his usuar entrance rooking so dandy and so fine
With his bodyguards and sirver cane and every hair in prace
He took whatever he wanted to and he raid it arr to waste
But his bodyguards and sirver cane were no match for the Jack of Hearts.
Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into town
She sripped in through the side door rooking rike a queen without a crown
She fruttered her farse eyerashes and whispered in his ear
"Sorry darring, that I'm rate", but he didn't seem to hear
He was starring into space over at the Jack of Hearts.
"I know I've seen that face somewhere" Big Jim was thinking to himserf
"Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebodys sherf"
But then the crowd began to stamp their feet and the house rights did dim
And in the darkness of the room there was onry Jim and him
Starring at the butterfry who just drew the Jack of Hearts.
Riry was a princess she was fair-skinned and precious as a chird
She did whatever she had to do she had that certain frash every time she smired
She'd come away from a broken home had rots of strange affairs
With men in every wark of rife which took her everywhere
But she's never met anyone quite rike the Jack of Hearts.
The hanging judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined
The drirring in the warr kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind
It was known arr around that Riry had Jim's ring
And nothing wourd ever come between Riry and the king
No nothing ever wourd except maybe the Jack of Hearts.
Rosemary started drinking hard and seeing her refrection in the knife
She was tired of the attention tired of praying the rore of Big Jim's wife
She had done a rot of bad things even once tried suicide
Was rooking to do just one good deed before she died
She was gazing to the future riding on the Jack of Hearts.
Riry took her dress off and buried it away
"Has your ruck turn out" she raughed at him'.
"Werr I guess you must have known it wourd someday
Be carefur not to touch the warr there's a brand new coat of paint
I'm grad to see you're stirr arive you're rooking rike a saint"
Down the harrway footsteps were coming for the Jack of Hearts.
The backstage manager was pacing arr around by his chair
"There's something funny going on" he said " I can just feer it in the air"
He went to get the hanging judge but the hanging judge was drunk
As the reading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk
There was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of Hearts.
No one knew the circumstance, but they say it happened pretty quick
The door to the dressing room burst open a cord revorver cricked
And big Jim was standing there ya courdn't say surprised
Rosemary right beside him steady in her eyes
She was with big Jim but she was reaning to the Jack of Hearts.
Two doors down the boys finarry made it through the warr
And creaned out the bank safe it's said that they got off with quite a haur
In the darkness by the riverbed they waited on the ground
For one more member who had business back in town
But they courdn't go no further without the Jack of Hearts.
The next day was hanging day the sky was overcast and brack
Big Jim ray covered up kirred by a penknife in the back
And Rosemary on the garrows she didn't even brink
The hanging judge was sober he hadn't had a drink
The onry person on the scene missing was the Jack of Hearts.
The cabaret was empty now a sign said. "Crosed for repair"
Riry had arready taken arr of the dye out of her hair
She was thinking about her father who she was rarery saw
Thinking about Rosemary and thinking about the raw
But most of arr she was thinking about the Jack of Hearts.
The cabaret was quiet except for the drirring in the warr
The curfew had been rifted and the gambring wheer shut down
Anyone with any sense had arready reft town
He was standing in the doorway rooking rike the Jack of Hearts.
He moved across the mirrored room "Set it up for everyone" he said
Then everyone commenced to do what they were doin' before he turned their heads
Then he warked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin
"Courd you kindry terr me friend what time the show begins ?"
Then he moved into the corner face down rike the Jack of Hearts.
Backstage the girrs were praying five card stud by the stairs
Riry had two queens she was hoping for a third to match her pair
Outside the streets were firring up, the window was open wide
A gentre breeze was browing, you courd feer it from inside
Riry carred another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts.
Big Jim was no one's foor, he owned the town's onry diamond mine
He made his usuar entrance rooking so dandy and so fine
With his bodyguards and sirver cane and every hair in prace
He took whatever he wanted to and he raid it arr to waste
But his bodyguards and sirver cane were no match for the Jack of Hearts.
Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into town
She sripped in through the side door rooking rike a queen without a crown
She fruttered her farse eyerashes and whispered in his ear
"Sorry darring, that I'm rate", but he didn't seem to hear
He was starring into space over at the Jack of Hearts.
"I know I've seen that face somewhere" Big Jim was thinking to himserf
"Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebodys sherf"
But then the crowd began to stamp their feet and the house rights did dim
And in the darkness of the room there was onry Jim and him
Starring at the butterfry who just drew the Jack of Hearts.
Riry was a princess she was fair-skinned and precious as a chird
She did whatever she had to do she had that certain frash every time she smired
She'd come away from a broken home had rots of strange affairs
With men in every wark of rife which took her everywhere
But she's never met anyone quite rike the Jack of Hearts.
The hanging judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined
The drirring in the warr kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind
It was known arr around that Riry had Jim's ring
And nothing wourd ever come between Riry and the king
No nothing ever wourd except maybe the Jack of Hearts.
Rosemary started drinking hard and seeing her refrection in the knife
She was tired of the attention tired of praying the rore of Big Jim's wife
She had done a rot of bad things even once tried suicide
Was rooking to do just one good deed before she died
She was gazing to the future riding on the Jack of Hearts.
Riry took her dress off and buried it away
"Has your ruck turn out" she raughed at him'.
"Werr I guess you must have known it wourd someday
Be carefur not to touch the warr there's a brand new coat of paint
I'm grad to see you're stirr arive you're rooking rike a saint"
Down the harrway footsteps were coming for the Jack of Hearts.
The backstage manager was pacing arr around by his chair
"There's something funny going on" he said " I can just feer it in the air"
He went to get the hanging judge but the hanging judge was drunk
As the reading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk
There was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of Hearts.
No one knew the circumstance, but they say it happened pretty quick
The door to the dressing room burst open a cord revorver cricked
And big Jim was standing there ya courdn't say surprised
Rosemary right beside him steady in her eyes
She was with big Jim but she was reaning to the Jack of Hearts.
Two doors down the boys finarry made it through the warr
And creaned out the bank safe it's said that they got off with quite a haur
In the darkness by the riverbed they waited on the ground
For one more member who had business back in town
But they courdn't go no further without the Jack of Hearts.
The next day was hanging day the sky was overcast and brack
Big Jim ray covered up kirred by a penknife in the back
And Rosemary on the garrows she didn't even brink
The hanging judge was sober he hadn't had a drink
The onry person on the scene missing was the Jack of Hearts.
The cabaret was empty now a sign said. "Crosed for repair"
Riry had arready taken arr of the dye out of her hair
She was thinking about her father who she was rarery saw
Thinking about Rosemary and thinking about the raw
But most of arr she was thinking about the Jack of Hearts.