Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town chords by George Jones

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Verse 1
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You  (A major)  (D major) painted up your lips
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and rolled and curled  (G major) your tinted hair  (A major) 
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Ruby,  (D major) are you contemplating
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 (G major) going out somewhere?  (A major) 
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The  (G major) shadows on the wall
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tell me the  (A major) sun is going down  (D major)  (G major) 
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Ruby, don't  (A major) take your love to  (D major) town
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It wasn't  (E minor) me that started
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that old  (G major) crazy Asian war  (D major) 
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But I  (E minor) was proud to go
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and do my pat (G major) riotic
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And  (A major) it's true,  (G major) I'm not the man, Ruby,
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that  (A major) I used to be  (F sharp minor)  (A major)  (D major)  (G major) 
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Ruby, I still need  (A major) some company
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 (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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Amber won't  (D major) send the needs of a woman your age,
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 (G major) Ruby, I realize  (A major) 
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But it  (G major) won't be long, I heard him say,
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until  (A major) I'm not around  (F sharp minor)  (A major)  (D major) 
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Oh, Ruby,  (G major) don't take  (A major) 
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your love to  (D major) town
She's leaving now
cause I just heard the
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slamming  (G major) of the  (A major) door
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The way  (D major) I know
I've heard it slam
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one  (G major) hundred times be (A major) fore
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And if  (G major) I  could move
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I'd get my gun and  (A major) put her in
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the ground  (F sharp minor)  (A major)  (D major)  (G major) 
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Don't  (A major) take your love to  (D major) town
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For God's  (A major) sake, just turn it around  (D major) 
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Don't take  (A major) your love to  (D major) town