TEXAS RUBY

Written by A.J. Croce and Gary Nicholson

Croce Publishing (ASCAP)/Gary Nicholson Music (ASCAP)

She climbed on to my street car

Just before it turned St. Charles

More woman than I've ever seen

And she was wrigglin' outa her jeans

It must have been a hundred and three

Cause it was August down in New Orleans

She looked right through me

Said excuse me

Introduced me

Texas Ruby is my name

It was nothing but a string bikini

That was underneath them old blue jeans

And her t-shirt was soaking wet

It's only natural that the woman would sweat

But she took it off and tossed it away

Lord I was struggling for something to say

She said you really must excuse me

These old clothes are sticking to me

Texas Ruby is my name

Texas Ruby

Lord she put it to me

That lone star beauty

Known as Texas Ruby

How was a California boy to know

She made a living stripping out of her clothes

And although she had never knew me

Or how she was getting to me

Texas Ruby blew my mind

Later on down on Bourbon street

You'd never guess who I chanced to meet

It's not so much that I recalled the face

But all the other parts were right in place

And when she saw me standing by the bandstand

Well she reached out and took my hand

She said I usually don't perform

On a street car down St. Charles

But New Orleans heat just got to me

Texas Ruby

Lord she put it to me

That lone star beauty

Known as Texas Ruby

Now every time I climb on street car

That's rattling down St. Charles

I'm just a boy of seventeen

On his first day in New Orleans

Seeing thing he'd never dreamed he'd see

From a girl who said excuse me

Showed it all then introduced me

Saying Texas Ruby is my name

Lord her memory drives me insane

Texas Ruby was her name