You have painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
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Ruby are you contemplatin' going out somewhere
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The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down
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Oh Ruby don't take your love to town
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It's hard to love a man whose legs're bent and paralized
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And the wants and the needs of a woman your age Ruby I realize
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But it won't be long I've heard them say until I'm not around
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Oh Ruby don't take your love to town
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For it wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war
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But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chores
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I know Ruby I'm not the man I used to be but Ruby I still need your company
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She's leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of the door
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Way I know I heard it slam one hundred times before
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If I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground
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Oh Ruby don't take your love to town
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Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town
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Claude King |