Ruby Dont Take Your Love To Town

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1. You've painted up your lips and 
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rolled and curled your tinted hair.
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Ruby are you contemplating going 
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out somewhere?
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The shadows on the wall tell me the
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 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 
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old crazy Asian war.
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But I was proud to go and do my 
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patriotic chores.
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And yes it's true, that I'm not the
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 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 
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legs are bent and paralized.
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And the wants and the needs of a 
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woman your age, Ruby, I realize.
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But it won't be long I heard them 
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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 
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heard the slamming of a door.
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The way I know I've heard it slam 
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one hundred times before.
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And if I could move I'd get my gun 
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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.