Sally Ruby(Album Version) - Kelly Joe Phelps

Sally what you doing here
Sally what you doing here
Left a jug among the reeds and corn
Big Jim bible with its pages torn
Tourniquet tight 'round my throwing arm
Jump in the briar
Ruby lays across the bed
You're coming home
Sally what you doing here
Sally what you doing here
Break a fire with a paper match
Burn a tatoo on a guy
With an eye patch
Cut your name off my wooden leg
Drop it in the coal
Ruby lays across the bed
You're coming home
Sally what you doing here
Sally hi hi oh
Stroke the bottom of a sterno cup
Plywood hand-out going 'cross and up
Jack your coat against a backroom wall
Hand on a sleeve
Ruby lays across the bed
You're coming home
A bag of crows on the frontyard fence
Chicken-head walking stick
Paint no pretence
Cat knocked-out teeth
Can't chew on a bone
Gimp down the hole
Ruby lays across the bed
You're coming home
Sally oh what you doing here
Sally what you doing here
Hopped a mule with a rail-tie sack
"No brother " Jimmy says
"She ain't coming back"
Strawman the piney trading gum for wire
I waited a long time
Ruby lays across the bed
You're coming home
Sally what you doing here
Sally what you doing here
Sally what you doing here
Sally sally sally what you do
What you do
Sally Ruby - Kelly Joe Phelps