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You've painted up your lips |
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And rolled and curled your tinted hair |
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Ruby are you contemplating |
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Going out somewhere |
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The shadow on the wall |
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Tells me the sun is going down |
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Oh Ruby |
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Don't take your love to town |
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It wasn't me |
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That started that old crazy Asian war |
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But I was proud to go |
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And do my patriotic chore |
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And yes, it's true that |
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I'm not the man I used to be |
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Oh, Ruby I still need some company |
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Its hard to love a man |
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Whose legs are bent and paralysed |
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And the wants and the needs of a woman your age |
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Ruby I realize, |
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But it won't be long i've heard them say until I not around |
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Oh Ruby |
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Don't take your love to town |
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She's leaving now cause |
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I just heard the slamming of the door |
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The way I know I've heard it slam |
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100 times before |
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And if I could move I'd get my gun |
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And put her in the ground |
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Oh Ruby |
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Don't take your love to town |
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Oh Ruby for God's sake turn around |
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Won't you come back Ruby |
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Won't you come back |
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Ruby... |
