Ruby baby-artist: dion from the cd andquot;the 60and's-rave onandquot;-time life music 2r9r-29-peak billboard position # 2 in 1963-previously a # 10 hit for the drifters in 1956-later charted by billy andquot;crashandquot; craddock at # 33 in 1975-words and music by jerry leiber and mike stollerwords in brackets andlt; andgt; are spoken asidesah now said i love a girl and-a ruby is her nameandlt;hear me talkinand' nowandgt;this girl donand't love me but i love and'er just the sameandlt;whatand'd i say?andgt;(whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh), ruby, ruby, iand'm-a want yalike a ghost iand'm-a gonna haunt yaruby, ruby, ruby will you be mine?, sometimeah each time i see you, baby my heart criesandlt;ah, it does, rubyandgt;i tell ya iand'm gonna steal you away from all those guysandlt;are they wise?andgt;whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, from the happy day i met yanow i made a bet that i was goinand' to get yaruby, ruby, ruby will you be mine?andlt;hear me talkinand', in time, nowandgt;andquot;hey-hey andquot; overlaid with (ruby, ruby, ruby, baby)andquot;hey-hey andquot; overlaid with (ruby, ruby, ruby, baby)andquot;hey-hey andquot; overlaid with (ruby, ruby, ruby, baby)andquot;hey-hey andquot; overlaid with (ruby, ruby, ruby, baby)andlt;come to me, nowandgt;{andquot;hey-hey andquot; interspersed with andquot;oh, oh, oh, ohandquot;}andlt;gonna get yaandgt;andquot;hey-hey andquot; overlaid with (ruby, ruby, ruby, baby)}well, i tell yanow i love this girl i said-a ruby is her nameandlt;believe me, nowandgt;when this girl looks at me she just sets my soul aflameandlt;donand't ya know?andgt;whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, i got some hugs and-a kisses, tooyeah and now iand'm gonna give-a them all to younow, listen, now ruby, ruby, when will you be mine?andlt;gonna get you sometime, ruby!andgt;andquot;hey-hey andquot; overlaid with (ruby, ruby, ruby, baby)andquot;hey-hey andquot; overlaid with (ruby, ruby, ruby, baby)andquot;hey-hey andquot; overlaid with (ruby, ruby, ruby, baby)andquot;hey-hey andquot; overlaid with (ruby, ruby, ruby, baby)andquot;hey-hey andquot; overlaid with (oh, oh, oh, oh)ah listen, listen, listen, nowruby, ruby, ruby, ruby will you be mine?fadeandlt;ah, in time, everybody nowandgt;transcribed by robin hoodthese lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned aboveand do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheetmusic, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.
