Tonart: B major
Intro 1
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Ruby's shoes would take
Verse 1
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her
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A mile or so to school
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every day
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Where the white people hated her
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They'd scream and hold signs and
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tell her to go away
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But Ruby's will was stronger
Verse 2
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Than the bigots with the
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signs could ever know
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She stopped every morning
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on the corner
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And prayed that someday
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the pain would go
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And she'd stop
Verse 3
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and she'd pray
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That all the hatred would go away
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Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
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Verse 4
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Ruby sat alone in the classroom
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She never dreamed the other
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children wouldn't come
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They hated her for the color of her skin
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Well color is such an
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amazing illusion
Verse 5
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She'd stop and she'd pray
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That all the hatred would go away
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She was only six years old but she knew
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Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
Verse 6
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Ruby
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knew about Dorothy
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And the ruby shoes that she wore
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She wondered
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Well, well no other child ever
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walked her shoes before
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And she'd
Verse 7
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stop and she'd pray
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That all the hatred would go away
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shoes
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Verse 8
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Ruby, if birds can always fly
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Why oh why can't you and I?
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Verse 9
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Ruby's shoes would take her
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A mile or so to school
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every day
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Where the white people hated her
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They'd scream and hold signs
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and tell her to go away
Verse 10
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stop and she'd pray
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That all the hatred would go away
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She'd stop and she'd pray
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That no other children would be raised
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this way
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Ruby's shoes
Verse 11
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If birds can fly
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Then why oh why
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If birds can fly then why oh
Outro 1
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