Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town chords by The Statler Brothers
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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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 going
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out somewhere
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The shadows on the wall tell me
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the sun is going down
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Oh Ruby don't take your love to town
Verse 2
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For 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 and
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do my patriotic chores
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And I know Ruby that I'm not
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the man I used to be
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But Ruby I still need your company
Verse 3
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It's hard to love a man whose
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legs are bent and paralized
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And the wants and the needs of
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a woman your age Ruby I realize
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But it won't be long I've heard them
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say until I'm not around
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Oh Ruby don't take
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your love to town
Verse 4
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She's leavin' now for I just heard
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the slamming of the door
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The way I know I've heard it slam
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one hundred times before
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If I could move I get my gun
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and put her in the ground
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Oh Ruby don't take
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your love to town
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Don't take your love to town
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for my sake turn around
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town
The Statler Brothers
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