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Rubys Shoes by Lori McKenna
Rubys Shoes
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 4th fret
[Intro]
G C G C G C G C
[Verse 1]
G C G C
Ruby's shoes would take her
G C G C
A mile or so to school every day
G C G C
Where the white people hated her
G C G C
They'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away
[Verse 2]
G C G C
But Ruby's will was stronger
G C G C
Than the bigots with the signs could ever know
G C G C
She stopped every morning on the corner
G C G C
And prayed that someday the pain would go
[Chorus]
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C
That all the hatred would go away
Dsus4 C
She was only six years old, but she knew
G C
Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
[Instrumental]
G C G C G C
[Verse 3]
G C G C
Ruby sat alone in the classroom
G C G C
She never dreamed the other children wouldn't come
G C G C
They hated her for the colour of her skin
G C G C
Well, colour is such an amazing illusion
[Chorus]
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C
That all the hatred would go away
Dsus4 C
She was only six years old, but she knew
G C
Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
[Instrumental]
G C G C G C
[Verse 4]
G C G C
Now Ruby knew about Dorothy
G C G C
And the ruby shoes that she wore
G C G C
She wondered about Oz sometimes
G C G C
Well, well no other child ever walked in her shoes before
[Chorus]
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C
That all the hatred would go away
Dsus4 C
She was only six years old, but she knew
G C G C
Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
[Bridge]
Em C D Dsus4 D
Ruby, if birds can always fly
G C
Why, oh why, can't you and I
[Instrumental]
G C G C G C
[Verse 5]
G C G C
Ruby's shoes would take her
G C G C
A mile or so to school every day
G C G C
Where the white people hated her
G C G C
They'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away
[Chorus]
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C
That all the hatred would go away
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C G C G C
That no other children would be raised this way
G C G C
Ruby's shoes
[Outro]
G C
If birds can fly
G C
Then why oh why
G C
If birds can fly
G C G C G
Then why, oh why, can't I
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