Verse 1 / D
The / festival was over, and
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The / boys were all plannin' for a / fall.
/ D
The / cabaret was quiet,
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Ex - / cept for the drillin' in the / wall.
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The / curfew had been lifted and
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The / gamblin' wheel shut down,
G - D
Anyone with any sense,
/ A - A
Had / a - ready left town.
/ D
He was / standin' in the doorway
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Lookin' like the Jack of Hear - / arts. / /
Verse 2 / D
He / moved across the mirrored room,
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"Set em up for everyone," he / said,
/ D
Then / everyone commenced to do,
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What / they'd been doin',
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Be - fore he moved their / heads.
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Then he / walked up to a stranger, and
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He / asked him with a grin,
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"Could you / kindly tell me, mister,
/A A
What / time the show be - gins?" / D
He / moved into the corner,
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Face down like the Jack of Hear - / arts
Verse 3 / D
Back - stage the girls were playin'
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Five-card stud by the / stairs, / D
Lily had two queens,
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She was / hopin' for a third,
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To match her / pair. / G - D
Out - / side the streets were fillin' up, and
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A / window was open wide, / G - D
A / gentle breeze was blowin',
A A
You could / feel it from in - side.
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Lily called a - nother bet, and
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Drew up the Jack of Hear - / arts.
Verse 4 / D
Big Jim was no one's fool,
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He owned the town's only diamond / mine,
/ D
He / made his usual entrance,
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Lookin' all so dandy and so / fine.
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With his / bodyguards and silver cane, and
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Every hair in place,
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He / took whatever he wanted to, and / A - A
He / laid it all to waste,.
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But his / bodyguards and his silver cane,
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They were / no match for the Jack of Hear - / arts
Verse 5 / D
Rose - / mary co - ombed her hair, and
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Took the carriage into / town,
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She / slipped into the side door,
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Lookin' like a queen without a / crown.
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She / fluttered her false eyelashes and
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Whispered in his ear,
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"I'm / sorry, darlin', that I'm late," / A - A
But he / didn't seem to hear.
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He was / starin' into space,
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Over at the Jack of Hear - / arts.
Verse 6 / D
"Well I / know I've seen that face somewhere,"
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Big Jim was thinkin' to him - / self,
/ D
"Maybe down in Mexico or
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A / picture up - on some - body's / shelf."
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But then the / crowd began to stamp their feet, and
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The / house lights did dim, and
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In the darkness of the room,
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There was / only Jim and him,
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Starin' at the butterfly,
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Who / just up drew up the Jack of Hear - / arts
Verse 7 / D
Lily was a princess,
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She was / fair-skinned and precious as a / child,
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She / had that certain something
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Was a kind of a flash,,
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Every time she / smiled.
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She'd / come away from a broken home,
/A - D
Had / lots of strange af - fairs, / G - D
With / men in every walk of life,
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Who / took her every - where. / D
But she'd / never met any - one
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Quite like the Jack of Hear - / arts.
Was being wined and / dined, / D
The / drillin' in the wall kept up,
/ G / D
But / no one seemed to pay it any / mind.
/ G - D
It was / known all a - round,
/ A - D
That / Lily had Jim's ring, and
G - D
Nothing would ever come,
/ A - A
Between / Lily and the king.
/ D
No, / nothin' ever could,
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Ex - / cept maybe the Jack of Hear - / arts.
Verse 9 / D
Rosemary started drinkin' hard and
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Seein' her re - flection in the / knife,
/ D
She was / tired of the at - tention,
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Tired of playin' the role of Big Jim's / wife.
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She had / done a lot of bad things,
/ A - D
Even / once tried sui - cide,
/G - /A
Was / lookin' to do just one good / deed - A
Before she died.
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She was / gazin' to the future,
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Riding on the Jack of Hear - / arts
Verse 10 / D
Lily took her dress off,
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Buried it a - / way.
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"Has your / luck run out?" she laughed at him,
/ G / D
"I / guess you must have known it would some - / day.
/G D
/ A D
There's a /brand-new coat of paint,
/G - D
I'm / glad to see you're still alive, and / A - A
You're / lookin' like a saint."
/ D
Down the hallway footsteps
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Were / comin' for the Jack of Hear - / arts
The / Backstage manager was / pacin', / G / D
All a - round by his / chair.
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"There's / somethin' funny going on,
/ G / D
" I / know, I can just feel it in the / air."
/ G - D
He / went to get the hangin' judge,
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But the / hangin' judge was drunk, and
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The / leading actor hurried by / A - A
In the / costume of a monk.
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But there was no / actor any - where,
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Better than the Jack of Hear - / arts.
Lili had her arms a - round the / man / G / D
She dearly loved to / touch,
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She for - / got all a - bout the man,
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She / hated who hounded her so / much,
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I / missed you so she said to him, and
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He / thought she was sincere
/G - D
But / in the hallway he fou - ound / A - A
Jealousy and fear
/ D
Just another night in the /
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life of the Jack of Hear - / arts
Verse 13 / D
No one knew the circumstance
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But / they say that it happened pretty / quick,
/ D /G
The / door to the dressing room burst / open and / G / D
A cold revolver / clicked, and
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Big Jim was standin' there,
/ A - D
You / couldn't say sur - prised,
/G - D
Steady in her eyes. / D
She was / with Big Jim,
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But she was / leanin' to the Jack of Hear - / arts
Verse 14 / D
Two doors down and the / boys,
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Finally made it through the / wall, and
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They / cleaned out the bank safe,
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Said they got off with quite a / haul, and
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In the / darkness of the riverbed,
/ A - D
They / waited on the ground,
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For / one more member, / A - A
Who had / business back in town.
/ D
But they / couldn't go no further,
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With - out the Jack of Hear - / arts.
Verse 15 / D
Well the / next day was hangin' day,
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The / sky was overcast and / black,
/ D
Big Jim lay covered up,
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Killed by a penknife in the / back, and
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Rose - / mary on the gallows,
/ A - D
Lord she / didn't even blink,
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The / hangin' judge was sober, / A - A
Lord, he / hadn't had a drink and,
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The / only person on the scene
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Missing was the Jack of Hear - / arts
Verse 16 / D
Well the / cabaret was quiet now, and
/ G / D
A / sign said, "Closed for re - / pair,"
/ D
Lily had already taken / all of the dye
/ G / D
Out of her / hair.
/ G - D
She was / thinkin' about her father,
/ A - D
Who she / very rarely saw,
G - D
Thinkin' about Rosemary, and
/A - A
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