"74e2e56f-31e5-4f8e-9155-519fbaeca975" . "Gramophone record" . . "Mel Tillis" . "1967 songs" . "false"^^ . "true"^^ . "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition songs" . . . "true"^^ . . "5714ded725ac0d8aee4761a8" . "Jimmy Bowen" . "Reprise Records" . "english" . "Kenny Rogers songs" . "%22Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town%22 is a song written by Mel Tillis about a paralyzed veteran of a %22crazy Asian war%22 (given the time of its release, widely assumed but never explicitly stated to be the Vietnam War) who lies helplessly in bed as his wife %22paints [herself] up%22 to go out for the evening without him; he believes she is going in search of a lover, and as he hears the door slam behind her, he pleads for her to reconsider. The song was made famous by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition in 1969. %22Ruby%22 was originally recorded in 1967 by Johnny Darrell, who scored a number nine country hit with it that year.From SONGFACTS..%22Mel Tillis wrote this song. He based the song on a couple who lived near his family in Florida. In real life, the man was wounded in Germany in World War II and sent to recuperate in England. There he married a nurse who took care of him at the hospital. The two of them moved to Florida shortly afterward, but he had periodic return trips to the hospital as problems with his wounds kept flaring up. His wife saw another man as the veteran lay in the hospital.Tillis changed the war in the song to the Korean War, and left out the life ending: the man killed her in a murder-suicide. In the song, the man says he would kill her if he could move to get his gun.%22" . . . . "TRONBTZ128F9351E80" . "Bob Montgomery (songwriter)" . "United Artists Records" . . "-0.0430747"^^ . "0.0596464"^^ . "0"^^ . "Song recordings produced by Bob Montgomery (songwriter)" . "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" . "The Killers songs" . "1969 singles" . "0"^^ . "Number-one singles in Norway" . "Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town" . "Songs written by Mel Tillis" . "Johnny Darrell songs" . "Song recordings produced by Jimmy Bowen" . "RPM Adult Contemporary number-one singles" .