Ruby Baby
Dion

-from the CD "The 60's-Rave On"-Time Life Music 2R9R-29
-peak Billboard position # 2 in 1963
-previously a # 10 hit for the Drifters in 1956
-later charted by Billy "Crash" Craddock at # 33 in 1975
-Words and Music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller


Words in brackets < > are SPOKEN asides

Ah now said I love a girl and-a Ruby is her name
<Hear me talkin' now>
This girl don't love me but I love 'er just the same
<What'd I say?>
(Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh), Ruby, Ruby, I'm-a want ya
Like a ghost I'm-a gonna haunt ya
Ruby, Ruby, Ruby will you be mine?, sometime

Ah each time I see you, baby my heart cries
<Ah, it does, Ruby>
I tell ya I'm gonna steal you away from all those guys
<Are they wise?>
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, from the happy day I met ya
Now I made a bet that I was goin' to get ya
Ruby, Ruby, Ruby will you be mine?
<Hear me talkin', in time, now>

"Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)
"Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)
"Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)
"Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)
<Come to me, now>
{"Hey-hey " interspersed with "Oh, oh, oh, oh"}
<Gonna get ya>
"Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)}
Well, I tell ya

Now I love this girl I said-a Ruby is her name
<Believe me, now>
When this girl looks at me she just sets my soul aflame
<Don't ya know?>
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, I got some hugs and-a kisses, too
Yeah and now I'm gonna give-a them all to you
Now, listen, now Ruby, Ruby, when will you be mine?
<Gonna get you sometime,   Ruby!>

"Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)
"Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)
"Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)
"Hey-hey " overlaid with (Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, baby)
"Hey-hey " overlaid with (Oh, oh, oh, oh)

Ah listen, listen, listen, now
Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby will you be mine?

FADE
<Ah, in time, everybody now>


Transcribed by Robin Hood

These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above
and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet
music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.