Chords for Mel Tillis - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town

_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ You [D] painted up your lips [D] and wrote and curled your tinted [E] _ hair
_ [Em] _ _
[D] Oh Ruby, are you [G] contemplating going [A] out somewhere?
[F#m] _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] The shadows on the wall tells me the sun is [A] going _ down
[Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
Oh [G] Ruby
_ [F#m] _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _
[D] Don't take your love to town
[A] _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Em] It wasn't me that started that [G] whole crazy [D] Asian war _ _ _ _ _
[Em] But I was proud to go and do [G] my patriotic [A]
chore
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] And I know Ruby that I'm not the man I used [A] to be
[Em] _ _ _ _ [D] Oh but _ _ [G] Ruby
_ [F#m] _ _ [Em] _ _ [A]
I still need [D] some company
[A] _ _ [D] _
_ _ Well it's hard to love a man whose [G] legs are bent and [A] paralyzed
_ [Em] _ _ _ _
[D] And the wants and the needs of a woman your [G] age, Ruby, I [A] _
realize
_ [Em] _ _ _ [G] But it won't be long I've heard them say until I'm [A] not _ around
[Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
Oh [G] Ruby
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _
[D] Don't take your love to town _ _ _
_ _ She's leaving [D] now cause I just [G] heard slamming [B] of the door
_ [Em] _ _ _
Now the way I [E] know I heard it [G] slam 100 [A] times before
[G] _ _ [Em] _ _ If I could move I'd get my gun and put her [A] in the _ ground
[Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] Oh Ruby
_ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _
_ [D] Don't take your love to town _ _
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
Oh _ Ruby
_ [Em] _ _ [A] _
_ _ For _ [D] _ God's sake [G] _ turn _ _ [D] _
_ around _ _ _ _ _
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