Chords for Tom T Hall. Ravishing Ruby. Clayton Delaney (1of 2).

_ _ _ _ _ _ Ladies and gentlemen, my influence in the early stages as a boy was the legendary Hank Williams.
But in more modern times, another gentleman has taken the place of Hank Williams in my life.
He is a superb man, a superb performer.
What more need I say on our fourth birthday?
Would [D] you welcome a welcome that he will remember for the rest of his [G] life,
the great [Ab] living legend, Mr.
Tom T.
[C] Hall! _ _ _
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[C] _ _ _ [Gm] Well, I liked that introduction so much, I wanted to hear it again.
_ Well, I'm very happy to be here this evening, and this is a great thrill for me.
[D] _ [G] Well, the [Gm] songs I write and sing are [G] songs about things I've done, places I've been, and people I've met.
[C] And we'll dedicate [F] this song to [C] all those truck [G] people.
Well, I got [Dm] this idea for [C] this song early one morning [G] in Redding, [A] California,
where the storytellers and I were traveling through there [C] and met a fella who asked me to give this lady an autograph.
And I signed an autograph for her, and I said, well, she has a very unusual [G] name.
And he told me the story about her, and I'll tell you [Gm] the story the way it was told to me.
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[C] _ _ _ [G] Ravishing Ruby, _ [C] she's been around for a while.
[G] Ravishing Ruby, _ she was [C] a truck stop child.
She'd born in the back of a rig [F] somewhere near L.A.
[C] Ravishing Ruby, [G] you poured a lot of hot [C] coffee in your day.
_ [G] Ravishing Ruby, _ believe [C] anything you say.
[G] Just like her daddy said, [C] said he'd be back someday.
She was just 14, she grew [F] up wild and free.
All [C] the time she's been waiting [G] on him, she's been [C] waiting on you and me.
Ravishing [F] Ruby, she [C] sleeps in a bar count bank.
Her [G] days and nights are filled with dreams of a [C] man named Smiling Jack.
That was [F] her daddy's name, that's all [C] she ever knew.
Ravishing [G] Ruby ain't got time for [C] guys like me and you.
No [G] way.
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[G] Ravishing Ruby, _ beautiful [C] young girl now.
Ravishing [G] Ruby, _ she made [C] a solemn vow.
She went on Smiling Jack, [F] he'd come rolling by.
She [C] wants to see him, [G] she wants to touch him [C] either way in dead or alive.
_ [F] Ravishing Ruby, she sleeps in [C] a bar count bank.
Her days [G] and nights are filled with dreams of a man [C] named Smiling Jack.
[F] That was her daddy's name, [C] that's all she ever knew.
_ [G] Ravishing Ruby ain't got time for [C] guys like me and you.
No way.
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ These gentlemen in the band [Eb] are the storytellers who travel all over the world [Ab] with me, giving country music a bad name. _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ Well, I don't guess a Tom T.
Hall concert would be any good without remembering the man who inspired me to be a guitar picker and a singer and a songwriter.
[Eb] And this young man died when he was about 19 or 20 years old, and I was about 7 or 8 years old at the time.
But he taught me a very valuable lesson.
He taught me to be myself and _ kind of enjoy life and [Gm]
love and appreciate country music.
[E] And in [F] 1962, when I first started writing songs [G] and sending them around to Nashville, [F] [C] I [G] remembered [F] [G] the fellow who helped [C] me so much.
And I wrote this song as a tribute to him, so I'll sing it for you all and I'll dedicate it to him.
[D] I [C] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ [A]
[C] remember the [G] years that Clayton Delaney [C] died. _ _
[F] They said for the last two weeks that he suffered [C] and cried.
They [F] made a big impression on me, although I was a [C] barefoot kid.
They said he got religion at [G] the end, and I'm glad [C] that he did. _ _
And old Clayton was the [G] best guitar picker in [C] our town. _ _
[F] I thought he was a hero, I used to follow [C] Clayton around. _
[F] Clayton used to tell me, son, you better put that old guitar [C] away.
There ain't no money in [G] it, it'll lead you to an [C] earthquake. _ _
Oh, daddy said he drank a [G] lot, but I could never [C] understand. _ _
[F] I knew he used to pick up in Ohio with a [C] five-piece band. _ _
[F] I've been wondering why Clayton, who seemed [C] so good to me,
never took his [G] guitar and made it down [C] in Tennessee. _
Lord, I guess if I'd admit [G] it, Clayton taught me [C] how to drink.
_ I [F] can see him half-stoned picking up the [C] life-sick blues.
Lord, [F] when Clayton died, I made him a promise I was gonna carry [C] on somehow.
I'd give a hundred dollars [G] if he could only [C] see me now.
Peterborough, yeah, I remember the [G] years that Clayton [C] Delaney died. _
[F] Well, nobody ever knew it, but I went out in the woods [C] and I cried. _ _
[F] Oh, I know there's a lot of big preachers, and they know a lot [C] more than I do.
Could be that the good [G] Lord likes a little [C] picking, too.
Oh, I hope so.
Yeah, I remember the [G] years that Clayton [C] Delaney died. _ _
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