Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town
Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
1969
jaar
Top 40
5
piekpositie
Top 40
11
weken
Top 40
252
punten
Top 40
Artiest
Titel A-kant
Rudy, Don't Take Your Love To Town
Lengte A-kant
2:52
Componist(en) A-kant
Mel Tillis
Producer(s) A-kant
Jimmy Bowen
Titel B-kant
Girl Get hold Of Yourself
Lengte B-kant
2:30
Componist(en) B-kant
Kenny Rogers
Producer(s) B-kant
Glen D. Hardin
Platenlabel
Reprise
Catalogusnr
RA 0829
Album
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
Songtekst
You've painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby, are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadow on the wall tells me, the sun is going down
Oh, Ruby, don't take your love to town
It wasn't me who started that old crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic choir
And yes, it's true that I am not the man I used to be
Oh, Ruby, I still need some company
It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed
And the wants and the needs of a woman your age, Ruby, I realize
But it won't be long, I've heard them say, until I'm not around
Oh, Ruby, don't take your love to town
She's leaving now, 'cause I just heard the slamming of the door
The way I know I've heard it slam a 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