Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town

you painted up your lips

and rolled and curled your tinted hair

ruby are you contemplating

going out somewhere

the shadow on the wall tells me the sun ist going down

oh ruby, don´t take your love to town

it wasn´t me who 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

it´s hard to love a man whose legs

are bent and paralyzed

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´m not around



oh ruby, don´t take your love to town

she´s leaving now

´cause I just heard the slamming of 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, don´t take your love to town

oh ruby, for god´s sake ... turn around