In and Double-Aught A harlot who was hot to a fine little bijoux to the world With a for a makeshift doc In a cat house far Camelot Her goldmine brought to a baby girl
When the child from life's first slap The boss said, "Kid, get to that You'll never meet a day that cruel" And she wrapped her babe in a a bottle and made a toast Here's to my gorgeous bastard, Ruby
And the man at the piano a tune And everybody sang and danced in the Except (Ruby) No, not (Ruby) Ruby
Reared among the her mama puffed a Chinese pipe The salad days for Ruby didn't Forced to and pay her dues Inside that poor Moulin Rouge A snot-nosed kid had to grow up
Night and day she and sweat brothel patrons placed their bets On who be the first to break her in Then one night the screams "Ruby, get to thirteen someone there who thinks you're quite a gem"
And the man at the played a tune And everybody and danced in the saloon Except (Ruby) No, not (Ruby) Jewel
In done-up and a borrowed dress She climbed the scared to death Said a prayer and through the door But on deaf ears her fell 'Cause through a tear she at hell Standing there in nothing but his
She recognized the chin eyes and foul-mouthed grin He was the man who the silver star She to turn around and run But he out his big six gun And said, "Hon, you won't get far"
And the man at the piano a tune And sang and danced in the saloon Ruby (Ruby) No, not (Ruby) Ruby
Ruby Jewel up in bed A crimson between her legs as the day she was born But there next to him her wish she hadn't been If this was all living had in store
Making he was asleep She quietly got to her Found his gun and aimed it between his She kept it there til he to So he could stare down the too Pulled the once and watched him die
And the man at the played a tune And everybody and danced in the saloon Ruby (Ruby) No, not (Ruby) Jewel
On a rainy night in twelve Locked inside the new jail carved a message in the stone When came, hacks lead her out In chains right through the crowd Who waited in the mud to watch the
walked her up the gallows steps Put the rope around her Dropped the trap as all the watchers But on the of a cell In a scrawl and misspelled Were the words, 'Ruby was here'
And the man at the played a tune And everybody sang and danced in the Ruby (Ruby) No, not (Ruby) Ruby