Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town chords by Dale Ward

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Verse 1
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 (D major) You have  (E minor)  (G major)  (D major) painted up your lips
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and rolled and  (G major) curled your tinted hair  (A major) 
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Ruby  (D major) are you contemplating
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go (G major) ing out somewhere?  (A major) 
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The shadows  (G major) on the wall
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tell me the  (A major) sun is going down
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Oh,  (D major) Ruby,  (G major) don't  (A major) take your love to  (D major) town
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For it  (A major) wasn't me that started
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that old crazy  (G major) Asian war  (D major) 
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But I  (A major) was proud to go and
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do my patriotic  (G major) chore  (A major) 
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And I  (G major) know,
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that I'm not the  (A major) man I used to be
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But,  (D major) Ruby,  (G major) I still need  (A major) your company
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 (D major)  (E minor)  (G major)  (D major) It's hard to love a man
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whose legs are  (G major) bent and paralyzed  (A major) 
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And the  (D major) wants and the needs
of a woman your age
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Oh  (G major) Ruby, I realize  (A major) 
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But it won't  (G major) be long,
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I've heard them say  (A major) 

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I'm not around

Oh, Ruby

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Don't take your love to town

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She's leaving now

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For I just heard the slammin' of the door

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The way I know I've heard the slam

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A  (G major) hundred times before  (A major) 
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If  (G major) I  could move, I'd get my gun
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and  (A major) put her in the ground  (D major) 
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Oh, Ruby,  (G major) don't  (A major) take your love to  (D major) town
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For my  (G major) sake,  (D major) turn around
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Oh,  (G major) Ruby, turn around  (D major) 
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Don't  (G major) take your love to town you