(Mel Tillis)



You've painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted hair.

Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?

The Shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down -

Oh Ruby

Don't take your love to town



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



It wasn't me that started that old crazy asian war

But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore

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

Oh Ruby

I still need some company.



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