Ruby ’81 chords by Aesop Rock

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
July 4th,1981,candles of a Roman ilk
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Unloaded from a chevy truck
Into the home her folks had built
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Patio was charcoals and extended
fam in folding chairs
Safely arced around the yard to focus
on the smoking flares
Couple cousins,
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uncles, aunts, mostly grown- ups, couple brats
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Baby Ruby's only two
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She's too close to the
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jumping jacks
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Mommy scoops her to the house
Buckles up the booster seat
Rolls her to the storm door
Let her long for all the lunacy
Telephone distracting Mom
Ruby wriggles out her strap
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Fingers push the plexi- glass
She's off into the sour patch
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Past the pyrotechnics undetected
and invisible
Woke the sleeping beagle skipping
toward the kidney swimming pool
Off into the yawning blue
The splash would mum the rock
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et- ships
Ruby's lungs were filling by the time
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her kin were cognizant
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Many sprung and sprinted down
All arrive belated but
The beast she had earlier stirred
had been alert since waking up
Canine let his gainer fly
Water top commotion grow
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Howling guests assumed the cloven hoofs had
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come to do- si- do
Frenzied and congested deck
Part to let the elders see
Soggy beagle gently dragging
Ruby in his yellow teeth
Laid the tiny body in the sun before
her Father‘s feet
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When she choked the liquid through her bluish
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lips he dropped his knee
Helped the air to reconvene
Towel his shaking Ruby off
EMT confirm the save
Everybody say
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"Good dog!"