Lori McKenna – Rubys Shoes (Guitar)

Capo 4
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Chords

[Intro] G C G C G C G C [Verse 1]
G      C           G         C
Ruby's shoes would take her

  G             C            G    C
A mile or so to school every day

G         C            G          C
Where the white people hated her

       G               C                  G      C
They'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away
[Verse 2]
G          C        G         C
But Ruby's will was stronger

         G               C                G     C
Than the bigots with the signs could ever know

G                 C              G       C
She stopped every morning on the corner

    G           C           G          C
And prayed that someday the pain would go
[Chorus]
      Dsus4          C
She'd stop and she'd pray

     Dsus4                C
That all the hatred would go away

             Dsus4                  C
She was only six years old, but she knew

                      G     C
Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
[Instrumental] G C G C G C [Verse 3]
G         C           G          C
Ruby sat alone in the classroom

          G                 C                 G     C
She never dreamed the other children wouldn't come

     G     C           G             C
They hated her for the colour of her skin

      G         C       G         C
Well, colour is such an amazing illusion
[Chorus]
      Dsus4          C
She'd stop and she'd pray

     Dsus4                C
That all the hatred would go away

             Dsus4                  C
She was only six years old, but she knew

                      G     C
Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
[Instrumental] G C G C G C [Verse 4]
G        C          G        C
Now Ruby knew about Dorothy

        G    C              G     C
And the ruby shoes that she wore

G   C              G      C
She wondered about Oz sometimes

           G        C          G                     C
Well, well no other child ever walked in her shoes before
[Chorus]
      Dsus4          C
She'd stop and she'd pray

     Dsus4                C
That all the hatred would go away

             Dsus4                  C
She was only six years old, but she knew

                      G     C  G  C
Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
[Bridge]
Em       C                D   Dsus4  D
Ruby, if birds can always fly

                      G       C
Why, oh why, can't you and I
[Instrumental] G C G C G C [Verse 5]
G      C           G         C
Ruby's shoes would take her

  G             C            G    C
A mile or so to school every day

G         C            G          C
Where the white people hated her

       G               C                  G      C
They'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away
[Chorus]
      Dsus4          C
She'd stop and she'd pray

     Dsus4                C
That all the hatred would go away

      Dsus4          C
She'd stop and she'd pray

     Dsus4                      C                G  C   G  C
That no other children would be raised this way

      G  C  G     C
Ruby's      shoes
[Outro]
   G         C
If birds can fly

     G      C
Then why oh why

   G         C
If birds can fly

     G       C          G  C  G
Then why, oh why, can't I