and rolled and curled your tinted hair
ruby are you contemplating
the shadow on the wall tells me the sun ist going down
oh ruby, don´t take your love to town
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
and the wants and the needs
of a woman your age ... ruby I realize
I´ve heard them say until I´m not around
oh ruby, don´t take your love to town
´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
oh ruby, for god´s sake ... turn around