David Allan Coe - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town guitar chord

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town

written by Mel Tillis

tabbed 5/22/05

Credit where it's due...to Larry's tab of Kenny Roger's version. Some of the chords are

slightly different, and some of the lyrics are different, but much is still the same.

INTRO: C

C F G

You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair

C F Gsus4

Hey Ruby are you contemplating goin' out somewhere

Dm G

Shadows on the wall tells me the sun is goin' down

C F Dm C

Oh Ruby........don't take your love to town

Dm C

It wasn't me who started that old crazy Asian war

Dm F Gsus4

And I was free to go and do my patriotic chore

Dm G

And Ruby I know I'm not the man I used to be

C F Dm C

Oh Ruby........I still need some company

C F G

It's hard to love a man who's legs are bent and paralyzed

C F Gsus4

And the wants and needs of a woman your age, Ruby I realize

Dm G

And it won't be long I've heard 'em say until I'm not around

C F Dm C

Oh Ruby.......don't take your love to town

C F G

She's leavin' now, I just heard the slammin' of the door

C F G

The way I know I've heard it slam a hundred times before

Dm G

And if I could move I'd get my gun and lay her in the ground

C F Dm C

Oh Ruby........don't take your love to town

C F Dm C Dm

Oh Ruby........don't take your love to town,

C Dm C

For God's sakes turn around, don't take your love to town

CHORDS marked (*): Play barre chords, mute.