Joan Chandos Báez (Staten Island, Nueva York, 9 de enero de 1941), Joan Baez, cantante estadounidense de música folk, conocida como "La reina de la canción protesta". Caracterizada por una voz potente, aguda, próxima a la de una soprano, y con un vibrato controlado para potenciar la dramatización de las letras de las canciones, Joan Baez es la máxima figura de la canción protesta surgida en los años sesenta, al calor de la Guerra de Vietnam. Su repertorio, no obstante, abarca también lo puramente tradicional, el country y el pop-rock.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts 4/4 Joan Baez Bob Dylan Capo 1st fret Transcribed by Ken Lee [email protected]
/ 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 / E - A The / gamblin' wheel shut down, D - A Anyone with any sense, / Bm - E Had / a - ready left town. / A He was / standin' in the doorway D - E / A / / 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.