[ti:Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Blood On The Tracks] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - Bob Dylan [00:36.26]The festival was over and the boys were all planning for a fall [00:40.81] [00:43.88]The cabaret was quiet except for the drilling in the wall [00:48.87] [00:51.87]The curfew had been lifted and the gambling wheel shut down [00:55.92]Anyone with any sense had already left town [00:59.54]He was standing in the doorway looking like the Jack of Hearts [01:04.28] [01:07.65]He moved across the mirrored room"Set it up for everyone" he said [01:12.40] [01:15.14]Then everyone commenced to do what they were doin' before he turned their heads [01:20.08] [01:22.88]Then he walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin [01:26.75]"Could you kindly tell me friend what time the show begins" [01:30.61]Then he moved into the corner face down like the Jack of Hearts [01:34.86] [01:38.66]Backstage the girls were playing five card stud by the stairs [01:43.04] [01:46.34]Lily had two queens she was hoping for a third to match her pair [01:50.65] [01:53.83]Outside the streets were filling up the window was open wide [01:56.81] [01:57.58]A gentle breeze was blowing you could feel it from inside [02:01.38]Lily called another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts [02:05.56] [02:09.44]Big Jim was no one's fool he owned the town's only diamond mine [02:13.99] [02:16.92]He made his usual entrance looking so dandy and so fine [02:21.73] [02:24.41]With his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place [02:28.21]He took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste [02:31.84]But his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the Jack of Hearts [02:36.64] [02:39.95]Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into town [02:44.73] [02:47.71]She slipped in through the side door looking like a queen without a crown [02:52.58] [02:55.26]She fluttered her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear [02:59.19]"Sorry darling that I'm late" but he didn't seem to hear [03:02.82]He was staring into space over at the Jack of Hearts [03:06.87] [03:10.87]"I know I've seen that face somewhere" Big Jim was thinking to himself [03:15.67] [03:18.55]"Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's shelf" [03:23.78] [03:25.72]But then the crowd began to stamp their feet and the house lights did dim [03:29.84]And in the darkness of the room there was only Jim and him [03:33.52]Staring at the butterfly who just drew the Jack of Hearts [03:38.20] [03:41.56]Lily was a princess she was fair-skinned and precious as a child [03:46.18] [03:49.11]She did whatever she had to do she had that certain flash every time she smiled [03:53.98] [03:56.55]She'd come away from a broken home had lots of strange affairs [04:00.49]With men in every walk of life which took her everywhere [04:03.96]But she'd never met anyone quite like the Jack of Hearts [04:08.14] [04:12.07]The hanging judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined [04:16.81] [04:19.43]The drilling in the wall kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind [04:23.86] [04:26.73]It was known all around that Lily had Jim's ring [04:30.79]And nothing would ever come between Lily and the king [04:34.54]No nothing ever would except maybe the Jack of Hearts [04:38.52] [04:42.45]Rosemary started drinking hard and seeing her reflection in the knife [04:47.15] [04:49.70]She was tired of the attention tired of playing the role of Big Jim's wife [04:54.68] [04:57.05]She had done a lot of bad things even once tried suicide [05:00.05] [05:01.10]Was looking to do just one good deed before she died [05:04.79]She was gazing to the future riding on the Jack of Hearts [05:08.72] [05:12.71]Lily took her dress off and buried it away [05:17.27] [05:19.89]"Has your luck run out" she laughed at him [05:21.95]"Well I guess you must have known it would someday [05:24.83] [05:27.57]Be careful not to touch the wall there's a brand new coat of paint [05:31.19]I'm glad to see you're still alive you're looking like a saint" [05:34.88]Down the hallway footsteps were coming for the Jack of Hearts [05:39.01] [05:42.70]The backstage manager was pacing all around by his chair [05:47.19] [05:50.12]"There's something funny going on" he said" I can just feel it in the air" [05:54.49] [05:57.24]He went to get the hanging judge but the hanging judge was drunk [06:00.99]As the leading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk [06:04.66]There was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of Hearts [06:08.79] [06:12.27]No one knew the circumstance but they say it happened pretty quick [06:17.14] [06:19.95]The door to the dressing room burst open a Colt revolver clicked [06:24.70] [06:27.19]And big Jim was standing there you couldn't say surprised [06:30.93]Rosemary right beside him studying her eyes [06:34.49]She was with big Jim but she was leaning to the Jack of Hearts [06:38.92] [06:42.41]Two doors down the boys finally made it through the wall [06:49.84]And cleaned out the bank safe it's said that they got off with quite a haul [06:55.58] [06:56.89]In the darkness by the riverbed they waited on the ground [07:00.76]For one more member who had business back in town [07:04.57]But they couldn't go no further without the Jack of Hearts [07:09.37] [07:12.30]The next day was hanging day the sky was overcast and black [07:16.85] [07:19.67]Big Jim lay covered up killed by a penknife in the back [07:24.28] [07:26.97]And Rosemary on the gallows she didn't even blink [07:30.77]The hanging judge was sober he hadn't had a drink [07:34.46]The only person on the scene missing was the Jack of Hearts [07:38.69] [07:41.88]The cabaret was empty now a sign said"Closed for repair" [07:46.50] [07:49.43]Lily had already taken all of the dye out of her hair [07:53.98] [07:56.80]She was thinking about her father who she very rarely saw [08:00.67]Thinking about Rosemary and thinking about the law [08:04.28]But most of all she was thinking about the Jack of Hearts