Ruby Dont Take Your Love To Town Chords
by Mel Tillis
Ruby Dont Take Your Love To Town by Mel Tillis is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D7 and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
G C D7
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
G C D7
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere
C D7
The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down
G C D7 G
Oh Ru--by don't take your love to town
Am C G
It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war
Am C D7
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chores
C D7
And I know girl that I'm not the man that I used to be
G C D7 G
But Ru--by I still need some comp-any
C D7
It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed
G C D7
And the wants and the needs of a woman your age Ruby I realize
C D7
But it won't be long I've heard them say until I'm not around
G C D7 G
Oh Ru--by don't take your love to town
C D7
She's leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of the door
G C D7
The way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before
C D7
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground
G C D7 G
Oh Ru--by don't take your love to town
C G
Ruby for God sake's turn around
C D7 G
Don't take your love to town