Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town - Kenny Rogers

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
Written by: Mel Tillis


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Lyrics:
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair,
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
Shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down,
Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town.

It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war,
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore,
And yes, it's true that I'm not the 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 needs of a woman your age really 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 leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of the door,
The way I know I heard its slams 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 sake, turn around

Singers:
1. Johnny Darrell February 1967 2. Mel Tillis January 1967 3. Roger Miller June 1967 4. George Hamilton IV July 1967 5. The Statler Brothers August 28, 1967 6. Bobby Goldsboro August 1967 7. Waylon Jennings August 1967 8. The Calhoun Twins 1967 9. Peter Law & The New Pacific August 1969 10. Red Sovine November 1969 11. Faron Young November 1969 12. The Alan Caddy Orchestra and Singers November 1969 13. Leonard Nimoy 1969 14. The Dave Pell Singers 1969 15. Kenny Rogers (billboard hot 100) 1969 16. Bobby Bare 1969 17. Cal Smith August 1970 18. Anthony Armstrong Jones 1970 19. Country Fever 1970 20. Jerry Reed March 1971 21. Nat Stuckey June 1971 22. Carl Perkins December 1973 23. Emile Ford 1973 24. Tommy Overstreet April 1974 25. Clive Bruce 1978 26. Gary Holton February 1980 27. Ed Bruce 1981 28. Gary Holton and Casino Steel 1981 29. Sort Sol 1985 30. The Gorehounds April 1987 31. The Damned 1987 32. Up and Running 1988 33. Grant & Forsyth 1990 34. All 1997 35. Grass Cats 2000 36. Eugene Chadbourne 2001 37. Cake March 22, 2005 38. The Killers 2005 39. Robby Longo August 21, 2015

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