Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town
by Mel Tillis
V1.
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    EmEm Piano Chord 

You've painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted hair.
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Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
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The Shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down -
D   G G/F# Em (Stop)
Oh Ruby-----
DD Piano Chord 

Don't Take your love to town

V2 (same as V1)
Its hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralysed
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 not around
Oh Ruby-----
Don't Take your love to town

V3.
EmEm Piano Chord 
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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 chore
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And yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to be...
D   G G/F# Em (Stop)
Oh Ruby-----
DD Piano Chord 

I still need some company.

V4 (Same as V1)

She's leavin' now 'cause I heard the slammin' iof 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-----
For god's sake turn around!

enjoy.....

Bryan