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Ruby - Roger Miller

You've painted up your lips and rolled

And curled your tinted hair

Ruby are you contemplating

Going out somewhere

The shadows on the wall

Tell me the sun is going down

Oh ruby

Don't take your love to town

It wasn't me that started

That old crazy Asian war

But I was proud to go

And do my patriotic chores

And yes it's true

I'm not the man that I used to be

Oh but ruby

I still need some company

It's hard to love a man

Whose legs are bent and paralyzed

And the wants and the needs

Of a woman your age

Ruby I realize

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

Until I'm not around

Oh ruby

Don't take your love to town

She's leaving now

'Cause I just heard the slamming of the door

The way I know I've heard it slam

One hundred times before

And if I could move I'd get my gun

And put her in the ground

Oh ruby

Don't take your love to town

Oh ruby

For god's sake turn it out