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You've painted up your lips an rolled and curled your  
       A5    E5 
tinted hair. 
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Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere? 
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The Shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down  
    D5   G5  G5  E5 (Stop)    
Oh Ruby 
                        D5 
Don't Take your love to town 
 

       D5                                       A5        E5 
Its hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralysed 
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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've heard them say until I not around 
    D5   G5  G5  E5 (Stop)    
Oh Ruby 
                        D5 
Don't Take your love to town 

V3. 
   E5                              D5   
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 chore 
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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 
                        D5 
I still need some company. 
       D5                                              A5    E5 
She's leavin' now 'cause I heard the slammin' iof the 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 
   D5   G5  G5  E5 (Stop) 
Oh Ruby