C	F	G7
	You've painted up your lips and rolled and	curled your tinted	hair

	C	F	G7
	Ruby are you contemplating	going out some	where

	F	G7
The	shadows on the wall tell me the	sun is going down

	C	F	G7	C
Oh	Ru	by, don't take your	love to	town

	C	F	G7
	It's hard to love a man whose legs are	bent and para	lysed

	C	F	G7
And the	wants and the needs of a woman your age,	Ruby I rea	lise

	F	G7
But it	won't be long I've heard them say, un	til I'm not around

	C	F	G7	C
Oh	Ru	by, don't take your	love to	town

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

	Dm	F	G7
But	I was proud to go and do my	patriotic	chores

	F	G7
And	I know Ruby, that I'm not the	man that I used to be

	C	F	G7	C
But	Ru	by, I still need some	comp	any

	C	F	G7
	She's leaving now cause I just heard the	slamming of the	door

	C	F	G7
The	way I know I've heard it slam one	hundred times be	fore

	F	G7
And if	I could move I'd get my gun and	put her in the ground

	C	F	G7	C
Oh	Ru	by, don't take your	love to	town

	F	C
Ruby	for God sake's turn a	round

	F	G7	C
Don't	take your	love to	town