Tom T Hall - Don't Tell Ruby Where I'm At lyrics

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(Hillman Hall - Hal Bynum)

If you're ever down in Dallas drinkin' in the Palace

Say hello to Ruby she's an old friend of mine

You just wait until she's able and she'll come sit at your table

Hug your neck learn your name have a little glass of wine.

It was 1967 we were both in search of heaven

She was young and pretty and I was hard and lean

She begged me not to leave her but I'd done caught the fever

And I told her that ole heaven ain't a damn thing but a dream.

Listen when she talks of things we used to do

Believe her when she speaks of old friends we once knew

When she mentions me I'll almost have to make the bet

She'll say good Lord I wish we'd never met

Oh don't you dare tell Ruby where I'm at.

You know I lit out from Texas I was young and restless

I though guns and whiskey were the makin's of a man

I had a future waitin' for me workin' for the state of Georgia

I always think of Dallas when I hear that jail door slam.

Tell her no when she asks if I'm comin' down

Lie and tell her Dallas ain't my kind of town

Go ahead and love her I'll forgive you that

But if Ruby does not love me I will eat my hat

But don't you dare tell Ruby where I'm at.

See Ruby thinks I'm in Virginia some place

Drivin' one of them big trucks that go

Swoosh swoosh she don't know where I'm at

And don't tell her please...