Ruby Jewel Was Here-Allison Moorer

[00:00.000] 作词 : Moorer, Primm [00:10.00]@ @ [00:14.00] [00:15.90]In nineteen and double-aught [00:18.69]A harlot who was hot to trot [00:21.09]Gave a fine little bijou to the world [00:26.12]With a blacksmith for a makeshift doc [00:28.78]In a cathouse far from Camelot [00:31.66]Her gold mine brought to bed a baby girl [00:36.85]When the child screamed from life's first slap [00:39.77]The bawd said kid get used to that [00:42.12]You'll never meet a day that isn't cruel [00:47.82]Then she wrapped her babe in a petticoat [00:50.16]Grabbed a bottle and made a toast [00:52.77]Here's to my gorgeous bastard Ruby Jewel [00:57.79]And the man at the piano played a tune [01:02.91]And everybody sang and danced in the saloon [01:08.82]Except Ruby, no not Ruby, Ruby Jewel [01:13.77]Reared among the guttersnipe [01:19.01]While her mama puffed the Chinese pipe [01:24.48]The salad days for Ruby didn't last [01:29.60]Forced to work and pay her dues [01:32.39]Inside that poor man's Moulin Rouge [01:34.99]The snot-nosed kid had to grow up fast [01:40.08]Night and day she'd toil and sweat [01:42.90]While brothel patrons placed their bets [01:45.40]On who would be the first to break her in [01:50.21]Then one night the madam screams [01:53.65]Ruby get to room thirteen [01:56.15]There's someone there who thinks you're quite a gem [02:01.50]And the man at the piano played a tune [02:06.37]And everybody sang and danced in the saloon [02:11.50]Except Ruby no not Ruby Ruby Jewel [02:22.12]In done up hair and a borrowed dress [02:24.99]She climbed the stares scared to death [02:27.48]Said a prayer and tip-toed through the door [02:32.72]But on deaf ears her prayer fell [02:35.36]Cause through her tears she stared at hell [02:38.08]Standing there in nothing but his drawers [02:43.13]She recognized the whiskered chin [02:46.11]Bloodshot eyes and foul-mouthed grin [02:48.69]He was the man who wore the silver star [02:54.38]She tried to turn around and run [02:56.85]But he pulled out his big six gun [02:59.43]And said whore you won't get very far [03:04.58]And the man at the piano played a tune [03:09.50]And everybody sang and danced in the saloon [03:14.90]Except Ruby, no not Ruby, Ruby Jewel [03:25.21]Ruby Jewel woke up in bed [03:28.76]A crimson pool between her legs [03:31.08]Naked as the day that she was born [03:36.29]But lying there next to him [03:38.94]Made her wish she hadn't been [03:41.47]If this was all that living had in store [03:46.69]Making sure he was asleep [03:49.44]She quietly got to her feet [03:52.01]Found his gun and aimed it 'tween his eyes [03:57.23]She kept it there 'til he came to [03:59.80]So he could stare down the barrel too [04:02.34]Pulled the trigger once and watched him die [04:07.63]And the man at the piano played a tune [04:12.55]And everybody sang and danced in the saloon [04:18.50]Except Ruby no not Ruby Ruby Jewel [04:28.59]On a rainy night in nineteen-twelve [04:31.59]Locked inside the town's new jail [04:34.36]Ruby carved a message in the stone [04:39.42]When morning came hacks led her out [04:42.26]In ankle chains right through the crowd [04:44.76]Who waited in the mud to watch the show [04:49.86]They walked her up the gallows steps [04:52.75]But the rope around her neck [04:55.44]Dropped the trap as all the watchers cheered [05:00.30]But on the wall of her cell [05:03.29]In a tiny scrawl and misspelled [05:05.86]Were the words Ruby Jewel Was Here [05:10.74]And the man at the piano played a tune [05:15.84]And everybody sang and danced in the saloon [05:21.50]Except Ruby, no not Ruby, Ruby Jewel [05:30.42]