Ruby Dont Take Your Love To Town

C                           F             G
Ruby, are you contemplating going out somewhere?

    Dm                              G                 Dm
The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down

      C F E Dm N.C.                    C
Oh Ruby ...    don't take your love to town

   Dm                             C
It wasn't me who started that old crazy Asian war

    Dm                          F         G
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore

    Dm                              G
And yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to be

Dm C F E Dm N.C.                   C
Oh Ruby...  I still need some company

     C                                 F             G   Dm
It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed

        C                                    F         G
And the wants and needs of a woman your age, Ruby I realize

Dm                                           G
But it won't be long, I've heard them say, until I'm not around

F C F E Dm N.C.                    C
Oh Ruby... don't take your love to town

N.C.
And she's leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of the door

N.C.
The way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before

      Dm                               G                     Dm
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground