Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town

Kenny Rogers

Ruby chords
Kenny Rogers  1967
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby,_Don%27t_Take_Your_Love_to_Town
 
Capo III
 

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You've painted up your lips an rolled and curled your 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...
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Oh Ruby 
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Don't take your love to town 
 
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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, I still need some company.
 
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It s hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed 
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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'm not around 
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Oh Ruby 
                        A
Don't take your love to town 
 
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She's leaving' now 'cause I heard the slamming' of 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 
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Oh Ruby 
                        A
Don't take your love to town 
 
   A D
Oh Ruby
 
God sakes, turn around
 
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