Ira Wolf - Ruby

      [Intro]
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[Verse]
G             C              G
Ruby, she was made for going west
D       G                    C
Did not protest my wandering ways
G             C              G
Ruby, she was pretty as they come
D                  G            C
Twenty-eight years young and unafraid

[Chorus]
D                          Em      C
She gave me shelter on the coldest nights
Em     G            C
Shaded me on summer days
D                        Em    C
And I had never known my place before
                G    D    G
But that's what Ruby soon became

[Verse]
G                C             G
Ruby, she wasn't good at going fast
        D               G                   C
And the patience that I lacked I learned to grow
      G          C               G
Cause Ruby had a way of breaking down
D          G                C
Leaving me out there on the road

[Chorus]
D                          Em      C
She gave me shelter on the coldest nights
Em     G            C
Shaded me on summer days
D                           Em      C
So as we traveled cross the country wide
G    D       G
Ruby set the pace

[Verse]
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Ruby could be fickle and unfit
C               G       D
Good as I would give at times
Bm           C                G
Ruby was the closest thing to home
C         G            Am      D
I'll ever know in this life

[Bridge]
G             C          G
Ruby hit that California sand
D                        G      C
Slipped right through my hands eventually
G               C               G
Ruby, I guess I knew it all the time
D             G       C
She was never mine to keep


[Chorus]
D                          Em      C
She gave me shelter on the coldest nights
Em     G            C
Shaded me on summer days
D                          Em   C
And nothing ever felt like home again
     D         Em
When Ruby went away
D                          Em         C
And nothing ever felt like home since when
D
Ruby went away

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