Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town Lyrics - Claude King

You have painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair 

Ruby are you contemplatin' going out somewhere 

The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down 

Oh Ruby don't take your love to town 

It's hard to love a man whose legs're bent and paralized 

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 

For it wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war 

But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chores 

I know Ruby I'm not the man I used to be but Ruby I still need your company 

She's leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of the door 

Way I know I heard it slam one hundred times before 

If I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground 

Oh Ruby don't take your love to town