Rubys Shoes

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[Verse 1]
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Ruby's shoes would take her
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A mile or so to school every day
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Where the white people hated her
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They'd scream and hold signs and 
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tell her to go away

[Verse 2]
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But Ruby's will was stronger
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Than the bigots with the signs 
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could ever know
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She stopped every morning on the 
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corner
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And prayed that someday the pain 
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would go

[Chorus]
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She'd stop and she'd pray
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That all the hatred would go away
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She was only six years old, but she
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 knew
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Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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Ruby sat alone in the classroom
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She never dreamed the other 
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children wouldn't come
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They hated her for the colour of 
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her skin
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Well, colour is such an amazing 
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illusion

[Chorus]
      Dsus4          C
She'd stop and she'd pray
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That all the hatred would go away
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She was only six years old, but she
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 knew
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Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
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Now Ruby knew about Dorothy
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And the ruby shoes that she wore
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She wondered about Oz sometimes
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Well, well no other child ever 
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walked in her shoes before

[Chorus]
      Dsus4          C
She'd stop and she'd pray
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That all the hatred would go away
             Dsus4                 
She was only six years old, but she
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 knew
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Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes

[Bridge]
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Ruby, if birds can always fly
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Why, oh why, can't you and I

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 5]
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Ruby's shoes would take her
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A mile or so to school every day
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Where the white people hated her
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They'd scream and hold signs and 
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tell her to go away

[Chorus]
      Dsus4          C
She'd stop and she'd pray
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That all the hatred would go away
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She'd stop and she'd pray
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That no other children would be 
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raised this way
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Ruby's      shoes

[Other]
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If birds can fly
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Then why oh why
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If birds can fly
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Then why, oh why, can't I