Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town chords by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
Verse 1
You've painted up your lips
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and rolled and curled your tinted hair
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Ruby are you contemplating
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going out somewhere?
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The shadows on the wall
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tell me the sun is going down
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Oh Ru by,
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don't take your love to town
Verse 2
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It wasn't me that started
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that old crazy Asian war
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But I was proud to go
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and do my patriotic chore
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And yes, it's true
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that I'm not the man I used to be
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Oh Ru by,
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I still need some company
Verse 3
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It's hard to love a man
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whose legs are bent and paralized
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And the wants and needs
of a woman your age
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Ruby, I realize
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But it won't be long, I've heard them say,
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until I'm not around
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Oh Ru by,
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don't take your love to town
Verse 4
She's leaving now cause I just heard
the slamming of the door
The way I know I heard its slams
one hundred times before
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And if I could move, I'd get my gun
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and put her in the ground
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Oh Ru by,
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don't take your love to town
Outro 1
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Oh Ru by,
for God's sake, turn around
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
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