"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" is a song written by Mel Tillis
[Strophe]
       C                                   F                  G7   Dm 
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair. 
C                          F             G7 
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere? 
    Dm                              G7                Dm 
The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down. 
   C F   C/E Dm tacet                   C 
Oh Ruby,        don't take your love to town.
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       Dm                              C 
For it wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war. 
    Dm                          F         G7 
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chores. 
    Dm                              G7               Dm 
And yes it's true, that I'm not the man I used to be. 
    C F   C/E Dm  tacet                  C 
Oh, Ruby,         I still need some company.
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     C                                 F            G7    Dm 
It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralized. 
        C                                        F          G7 
And the wants and the needs of a woman your age, Ruby, I realize. 
       Dm                               G7                  Dm 
But it won't be long I heard them say until I'm not around. 
   C F   C/E Dm tacet                   C 
Oh Ruby,        don't take your love to town.
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      C                                  F             G7    Dm 
She's leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of a door. 
    C                                 F               G7 
The way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before. 
       Dm                              G7                    Dm 
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground. 
   C F   C/E Dm tacet                   C 
Oh Ruby,        don't take your love to town. 
   C F   C/E Dm tacet 
Oh Ruby,        for God's sake turn around.