Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town chords by
Theo Hakola
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Key: C major
Verse 1
Em
Em

C
C

F
F

C
C

Dm
Dm

C
C

Em
Em

C
C

Oh Ruby
You've pinned up your lips and rolled
F
F

G
G

and curled your chin -n -haired
Dm
Dm

C
C

Ruby, are you complaining,
F
F

going out somewhere?
G
G

F
F

The shadows on the walls
G
G

Dm
Dm

tell me the sun is going down
C
C

F
F

G
G

C
C

Oh, baby, don't take your love to town
Dm
Dm

For once in me,
F
F

C
C

they started out a crazy Asian war
Dm
Dm

But I was proud to go and
F
F

G
G

do my patriotic chore
Dm
Dm

And yes it's true
F
F

G
G

Dm
Dm

C
C

that I'm not the man I used to be
F
F

G
G

C
C

But Ruby, has to need some company
It's hard to love a man
F
F

G
G

Dm
Dm

whose legs are bent and paralyzed
C
C

And once in the needs
of a woman your age
F
F

G
G

Ruby, I realize
F
F

But it won't be long, I've heard them say
G
G

D
D

Dm
Dm

C
C

Till I'm not around
F
F

Surround me,
G
G

C
C

don't take your love to town
She's leaving now,
F
F

G
G

cause I can hear the slamming of the door
Dm
Dm

C
C

The way you know
F
F

G
G

I've heard it slam a hundred times before
F
F

G
G

If I could move I'd find a way to hold that
F
F

So she let her pray,
they'd take our guns away
G
G

D
D

Dm
Dm

C
C

For I'd put Harry in the ground
Oh, Ruby
F
F

G
G

C
C

F
F

For God's sake, turn around
G
G

C
C

Don't take your love to town

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