Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town - Mel Tillis

Written by：Mel Tillis

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

Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere

Shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down

Oh ruby don't take your love town

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

But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore

Hey I know ruby that I'm not the man I used to be

Hey ruby I still need your company

It's hard to love a man whose legs bent and paralyzed

And the want and the needs of a woman your age ruby I realize

But won't be long I've heard them say until I'm not around

Oh ruby don't take your love town

She's leaving now 'cause I just heard the slamming on the door

Now the way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before

I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground

Oh ruby don't take your love town

Oh ruby for god's sake ruby turn around