Kenny Rogers – Ruby Dont Take Your Love To Town (Guitar)

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

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Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?

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The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down.

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Oh Ruby,        don't take your love to town.

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For it wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war.

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But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chores.

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

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Oh, Ruby,         I still need some company.

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2. It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralized.

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And the wants and the needs of a woman your age, Ruby, I realize.

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

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Oh Ruby,        don't take your love to town.

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3. She's leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of a door.

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

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

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Oh Ruby,        don't take your love to town.

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Oh Ruby,        for God's sake turn around.