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?

Shadow on the wall tells me the sun is goin' down

Oh, Ruby

Don't take your love to town

It wasn't be that started this whole crazy Asian war

But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore

Yes, it's true that I am not that 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 leavin' now 'cause I just heard the slammin' 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 sakes, turn around