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Ruby and Carlos
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James Mcmurtry
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Ruby said you getting a sin of world of hurt
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Down below the mason dumb ass lined the food gets worse
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I can't go back to Tennessee
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That Nascar country's not for me
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Go on if you think you must
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Carlos packed his drums up in the darken night
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Ruby standing just outside the front porch light
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Chain smoking camel straights
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The sky off to the east got grey
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And he rolled off in a cloud of dust
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In a grey coat nicard at the gate, she said,
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"You're right it's getting late
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You and me got work to do
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We can't be burning day light too
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She took down the long laid rope
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And stayed off that slippery slope
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Now Aspen trees were turning gold up top
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The talk was buzzing round the beauty shop
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Wasn't he barely half her age
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Well that's how they do nowadays
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We should have all been so lucky
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By spring she had the run of the free born men
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Ruby turned 50 in a sheep camp tent
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Her body still could rock all night
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But her heart was closed and locked up tight
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But Teddy feels all muddy and brown
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The gossip long such quieted down
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After one more Cogans test
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Pouring coffee for the county vet
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Pictures on the ice box door
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Carlos in the first gulf war
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Black eyed brown and youthful face
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Smiling back from a Saudi base
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Then Carlos on the big bay mere
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Heavier now and longer haired
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Looking past the saddle shed
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From way back on inside his head
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And the whole vet said one day Rub
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that cold will break an egg in you
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Now and then one comes along
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You just can't write and he went on home
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And the storm bird didn't catch
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And blew back hard as she struck a match
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But she cupped it just in time
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And she sent that ashtray flying
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You holding back the flood
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It just don't do no good
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You can't unclench your teeth
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To howl the way you should
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So you curl your lips around
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The taste of tears and the hallow sound
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And no one owns but you
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No one owns but you
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Carlos took the road gig
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And he saw it through
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He rode the tour bus
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While the singer flew
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Managed out a music road,
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Carlos never saw the studio
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The session guys had that all sewn up
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He looked out the window
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And it starts to sleet
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Laying on a friends couch on Nevada street
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Lately he's been staying high
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Sick all winter and don't know why
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They Don't know why or won't say
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They don't talk much down on the V.A
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And Ruby's in his thoughts some times
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What thoughts can get out past the wine
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He feels his fingers on his brow
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And right then he misses how
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How she looked in that grey morning light
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She never shaved like they all do now
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He sees it all behind his eyes
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And his hands go searching but they come out dry
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Half way in that waken dream
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Carlos let's the land line ring
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He'd never guess it was Ruby calling
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A pen in her hip from the grey coat falling
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Figure eights and a lazy loop
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Stumbled on that lazy slope
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Holding back the flood
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It just don't do no good
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You can't unclench your teeth
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To howl the way you should
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So you curl your lips around
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The taste of tears and the hallow sound
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And no one owns but you
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No one owns but you
James McMurtry "No More Buffalo"
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