x                                                             G     Dm
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair?

C                           F             G     
Ruby, are you contemplating going out somewhere??

    Dm                              G                 Dm
The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down?

      C F E Dm x                       C
Oh Ruby ...    don't take your love to town?

   Dm                             C
It wasn't me who started that old crazy Asian war?

    Dm                          F         G
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore?

    Dm                              G
And yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to be?

Dm C F E Dm x                      C
Oh Ruby...  I still need some company?

     C                                 F             G   Dm 
It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed?

        C                                    F         G
And the wants and needs of a woman your age, Ruby I realize?

Dm                                           G
But it won't be long, I've heard them say, until I'm not around?

F C F E Dm x                       C
Oh Ruby... don't take your love to town?

x
And she's leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of the door?

x
The way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before?

      Dm                               G                     Dm
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground?

   C F E Dm x                       C
Oh Ruby...  don't take your love to town?

   F E Dm x
Oh Ruby...for God's sake, turn around?


Turn around?


(Get back in here! You're not single anymore! Where the fuck do you think you're going?!?) 


"x" means no chord, in case you were wondering ;)

Legal song streaming URL : http://www.deezer.com/track/600104

Tab by pKp