You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair   Ruby are you contemplatin' going out somewhere   The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down   Oh Ruby don't take your love to town   For it wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war   But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chores   Ruby I know I'm not the man that I used to be but Ruby I still need your company   It's hard to love a man whose legs're bent and paralized   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 heard it slam one hundred times before   If I could move I get my gun and put her in the ground   Oh Ruby don't take your love to town Ruby for God's sakes turn around