Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town chords by Roger Miller

Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town
by Neville Court
V1. Intro Notes - A3-G5-D5-G5-D5 A3-G5-D5-G5-D5 Repeat Twice
    C                 F         G   Dm
You've painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted hair.
C             F       G   Dm
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
  F                C      G   Dm
The Shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down -
  C  F
Oh Ru---by
   Dm    F    C
Don't Take your love to town

V2
  C                 F       G    Dm
Its hard to love a man whose legs are bent and para-lysed
    C                       F     G  Dm
And the wants and the needs of a woman your age, well Ruby I rea-lize
    F                  C     G   Dm
But it won't be long i've heard them say un-til I not around

 C  F
Oh Ru---by
   Dm    F    C
Don't Take your love to town

V3.
  Dm               C
It wasn't me that started that old crazy asian war
  Dm             F     G   Dm
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
  F               C       G  Dm
And yes, it's true I'm not the man that I used to be...
  C  F
Oh Ru---by
    Dm    F   C
I still need some compa-ny.


V4. -- pm= Palm Mute
   C-pm  C-pm    C-pm C-pm   F-pm      G-pm
She's leavin' now 'cause I justheard the slammin'of the door
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The way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before
    Dm               C       G    Dm
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground

  C  F
Oh Ru---by
  Dm     F   C
For God's sake turn a-round!