Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town - Bobby Bare
You have 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 goin' down
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town
It's hard to love a man
Whose legs are bent and paralized
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
For it wasn't me that started
That old crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go
And do my patriotic chores
Oh I know Ruby
That I'm not the man I used to be
But Ruby
I still need your company
She's leaving now
'Cause I've 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 get my gun
And put her in the ground
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town
Don't take your love to town
