Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town Lyrics - Live - Mel Tillis

You've painted up your lips 

And rolled and curled your tinted hair 

Ruby, are you contemplating 

Goin' out somewhere? 

The shadow on the wall 

Tells 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 chores 

And yes, it's true 

I'm not the man that I used to be 

Oh, but 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 leaving now 

'Cause I just heard the slamming 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 

Ruby, for God sake's turn around