RUBY DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN
(United Artists UAS-6594)
July/1967
Produced by Bob Montgomery
Recorded:
1966-1967 in Nashville
1.
RUBY DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN
(Mel Tillis)
« © '66 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
You have painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby are you contemplating 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
And I know Ruby that I'm not the man I used to be
But Ruby I still need your company
[ ac.guitar ]
It's hard to love a man whose legs are 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 for I just heard the slamming of the door
The way I know I heard it slam one 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
For God's sake turn around don't take your love to town
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2.
MENTAL REVENGE
(Mel Tillis)
« © '66 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I hope that the friend you've thrown yourself with he gets drunk and he loses his job
And that the road you're walkin' on gets cold rocky and hard
I couldn't make you love me you only made me blue
So all in all if the curtain should fall Lord I hope that it falls on you
I will have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
I will have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
[ guitar + harmonica ]
Well I hope that the train from Caribou Maine runs over your sweet love affair
You walk the floor from door to door and pull out your peroxide hair
You never were my woman cause you were never true
So all in all if the curtain should fall Lord I hope that it falls on you
I will have sweet sweet sweet...
I will have sweet sweet sweet...
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3.
SHE'S MIGHTY GONE
(Johnny Cash - June Carter)
« © '67 House Of Cash, BMI »
Day dawns and here comes the news
Baby's gone and here comes the blues
Took the pen and paper and threw 'em on the floor
There's nothing left to write anymore
She's mighty gone and I'm heartsick and sore
Why why why don't baby live here anymore
She's mighty gone
She's not the kind that's easy to live with
Not the gentle kind a man can be real with
She spoke out in protest I spoke out in anger
Turned her cross my knee even that didn't change her
She's mighty gone and I'm heartsick and sore
Why why why don't baby live here anymore
She's mighty gone
I'll pick up the dishes that she threw on the floor
I'll paint the walls and I'll buy a new door
I'll buy her perfume until it makes her sick
I'll make her realize it takes two heels to click
She's mighty gone and I'm heartsick and sore
Why why why don't baby live here anymore
She's mighty gone
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4.
I'M A LONESOME FUGITIVE
(Liz Anderson - Casey Anderson)
« © '66 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Down every road there's always one more city
I'm on the run the highway is my home
I raised a lot of cane back in my younger days
While mama used to pray my crops would fail
Now I'm a hunted fugitive with just two ways
Outrun the law or spend my life in jail
I'd like to settle down but they won't let me
A fugitive must be a rolling stone
Down every road there's always one more city
I'm on the run the highway is my home
[ harmonica ]
I'm lonely but I can't afford the luxury
Of having one I love to come along
She'd only slow me down and they'd catch up with me
For he who travels fastest goes alone
I'd like to settle down but they won't let me...
I'm on the run the highway is my home
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5.
COME SEE WHAT'S LEFT OF YOUR MAN
(Ronnie Self)
« © '67 Combine Music, BMI »
Last night I went to bed with my head on a street corner curb
Some kinda fool kicked me awake yeah I thought it was an elephant herd
Well I made it to a flathouse I paid my last to lay my body down
Check out time came too soon be broken and blew downton
And I said hey hey woman come see what's left to your man
Hey hey woman come see what's left to your man
Yeah I woke up this morning I had two hundred dollars with the shakes
Yeah it took me two days to drink up a check but it took me two weeks to make
I got two days of whiskers I better have a drink before I shave
I'm shakin' so bad I might cut my own throat and I ain't ready for my grave
And I said hey hey woman...
If I ever get back on my feet I ain't never gonna drink no more gin
Hey there boss show me a little mercy let me have my old job back again
Well all right you stubborn fool I'm the best worker you ever had
And if you don't want me diggin' in your ditch it sure ain't gonna make me mad
And I said hey hey woman...
Hey hey woman come see what's left to your man
Hey hey woman come see what's left to your man
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6.
I MUST HAVE GOT SOMETHING IN MY EYE
(Don Bowman)
« © '67 Central Songs, BMI »
Everybody keeps tellin' me how happy I should be that you're gone
Everybody keeps sayin' how better off I am alone
So if by chance someone should see me cry cry cry awhile
Just say I guess I must have got something in my eyes
Well now I'm tellin' everybody how happy I am we're through
And I've got 'em all believein' I never was in love with you
But if by chance someone should see me cry cry cry awhile
Just say I guess I must have got something in my eyes
But if they only knew the lonely world I live in
And now that I've lost you my life's just not worth livin'
And everybody knows that a grown man shouldn't cry cry cry so while
Just say I guess I must have got something in my eyes
And everybody knows that a grown man shouldn't cry cry cry so while
Just say I guess I must have got something in my eyes
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7.
HEAVEN HELP YOUR SOUL
(Mac Gayden)
« © '65 Singing Stone Music, BMI »
When the sun shines babe it'll wake you in the morning
When the moon fades away you gonna wake find me back gone
I'll kiss her lips so fire and put that ring back on your hand
It takes a lowdown son of a gun to steal your love from your lovin' man
Heaven help your soul for the bad things you've done
You're the girl I thought so true
You been a cheatin' on me when I'm gone
Every time I see a babe a looking for love to share
I'd fight the pain inside but I wonder now why did I give a care
Heaven help your soul...
Yes I'll kiss her lips so fire and put that ring back on your hand
It takes a lowdown son of a gun to steal your lips from your lovin' man
Heaven help your soul...
Heaven help your soul...
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8.
LITTLE THINGS I LOVE
(Curly Putman - Eddie Miller)
« © '67 Tree Publications »
(These are the little things I love)
The dresser holds her makeup scattered here and there
And here on my pillow is a strand of precious hair
And there by the phone is one of her roll gloss
These are the little things I love
There on the table is her comb and her brush
And many times they combed her hair that I have gently touched
Anything that's part of her just helps to hold me up
These are the little things I love
Yesterday the mourners passed her weeping
And my little boy and girl think mommy's only sleeping
Now I'm holding on to everything she ever she ever touched
These are the little things I love
These are the little things I love
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9.
COLD HARD FACTS OF LIFE
(Bill Anderson)
« © '67 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
I got back in town a day before I'd planned to
I smiled and said I'll sure surprise my wife
I don't think I'll phone I'll just head on home
For I didn't know the cold hard facts of life
I passed a little winestore on the corner
I pictured pink champagne by candle light
I stopped the car right then got out and hurried in
My mind not on the cold hard facts of life
A stranger stood there laughing by the counter
He said I'll take two bottles of your best
Her husband's out of town and there's a party
He winked as if to say you know the rest
I left the store two steps behind the stranger
From there to my house his car stayed in sight
But it wasn't till he turned into my drive that I learned
I was witnessing the cold hard facts of life
I drove around the block till I was dizzy
Each time the noise came louder from within
And then I saw our bottle there beside me
And I drank the fifth of courage and walked in
Lord you should have seen their frantic faces
They screamed and cried please put away that knife
I guess I'll go to hell or I'll rot here in this cell
But who taught who the cold hard facts of life
Who taught who the cold hard facts of life
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10.
I NEVER COULD ADD
(Walter Haynes)
« © '67 Forrest Hills Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
There were three happy people that I used to know
But one of them was foolish and let the other two go
Now two of them are together but for one it's too bad
Two from three is one lonely people I never could add
The only thing I ever add was the baby in our home
But both of them were mistreated now the two of them are gone
Just for one careless moment I lost all I had
Two from three is one lonely people I never could add
Add something with something and you can't gain anything
But take take something from something and you can lose everything
My misfortune was adding I couldn't build on what I had
Two from three is one lonely people I never could add
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11.
IT'S A ROUGH OLD ROAD TO TRAVEL
(Fred Carter)
« © '67 Tree Publishing, BMI »
It's a rough old road to travel it's a mighty tough row to hoe
It's a rough old road to travel and that is why I'm traveling slow
I've walked the road at nighttime passed houses full of light
I've watched a young man bringing his girl home safe at night
And I felt that lonesome feeling as he kissed her at her door
And oh the all old mem'ries only make me miss you more
It's a rough old road to travel...
I've heard the night owl calling from a far off lonely hill
And I've heard him find his answer in a lonely whippoorwill
But I've never known a feeling that can leave you half as blue
As the kind you get from loving something that don't love you
It's a rough old road to travel...
That is why I'm traveling slow
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12.
GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME
(Curly Putman)
« © '65 Tree Publishing, BMI »
(It's so good to touch the green green grass of home)
The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train
And there to meet me is my mama and papa
And down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green green grass of home
Yes they'll all come to meet me arms areaching smiling sweetly
It's good to touch the green green grass of home
The old house is still standing though the paint is cracked and dry
And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on
Down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green green grass of home
Then I awake and look around me at the grey walls that surround me
And I realize that I was only dreaming
For there's a guard and there's that sad old padre arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak
Again I'll touch the green green grass of home
Yes they'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me neath the green green grass of home
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