| You’ve painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
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| Ruby are you contemplatin' going out somewhere
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| The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down
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| Oh Ruby don’t take your love to town
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| For it wasn’t me that started that old crazy Asian war
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| But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chores
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| Ruby I know I’m not the man that I used to be but Ruby I still need your company
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| It’s hard to love a man whose legs’re bent and paralized
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| And the wants and the needs of a woman your age Ruby I realize
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| But it won’t be long I’ve heard them say until I’m not around
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| Oh Ruby don’t take your love to town
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| She’s leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of the door
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| The way I know I heard it slam one hundred times before
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| If I could move I get my gun and put her in the ground
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| Oh Ruby don’t take your love to town Ruby for God’s sakes turn around |