Ruby Baby<br />
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 -Artist: Dion from the CD "The 60's-Rave On"-Time Life Music 2R9R-29<br />
 -peak Billboard position # 2 in 1963<br />
 -previously a # 10 hit for the Drifters in 1956<br />
 -later charted by Billy "Crash" Craddock at # 33 in 1975<br />
 -Words and Music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller<br />
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 Words in brackets<br />
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 are SPOKEN asides<br />
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 Ah now said I love a girl and-a Ruby is her name<br />
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 This girl don't love me but I love 'er just the same<br />
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 (Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh), Ruby, Ruby, I'm-a want ya<br />
 Like a ghost I'm-a gonna haunt ya<br />
 Ruby, Ruby, Ruby will you be mine?, sometime<br />
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 Ah each time I see you, baby my heart cries<br />
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 I tell ya I'm gonna steal you away from all those guys<br />
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 Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, from the happy day I met ya<br />
 Now I made a bet that I was goin' to get ya<br />
 Ruby, Ruby, Ruby will you be mine?<br />
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 "Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)<br />
 "Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)<br />
 "Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)<br />
 "Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)<br />
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 {"Hey-hey " interspersed with "Oh, oh, oh, oh"}<br />
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 "Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)}<br />
 Well, I tell ya<br />
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 Now I love this girl I said-a Ruby is her name<br />
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 When this girl looks at me she just sets my soul aflame<br />
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 Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, I got some hugs and-a kisses, too<br />
 Yeah and now I'm gonna give-a them all to you<br />
 Now, listen, now Ruby, Ruby, when will you be mine?<br />
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 "Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)<br />
 "Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)<br />
 "Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)<br />
 "Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)<br />
 "Hey-hey " overlaid with (Oh, oh, oh, oh)<br />
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 Ah listen, listen, listen, now<br />
 Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby will you be mine?<br />
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 FADE<br />
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 Transcribed by Robin Hood<br />
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 These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above<br />
 and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet<br />
 music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.