She pleads in turn for her man to have faith in her fidelity and her commitment to him even in his paralyzed condition. The record's on play You can dance along, if you want, but I'll make ya pay The song is featured prominently in the 1971 West German film Rio das Mortes directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. But turn the music up, cos I'm gonna show you how I dance fight I got tone, see these abs, I'm athletic A post shared by Karen Gillan (@karengillanofficial) on May 5, 2019 at 10:08am PDT. The fact is though, whether or not you thought the short shorts joke was funny, given Ruby Roundhouse is a video game character, the joke is going to need to carry into the second movie, because we've seen in the trailer that it looks like those involved in the flick will be sucked into the same game. "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" is a song written by Mel Tillis about a paralyzed veteran who lies helplessly as his wife "paints [herself] up" to go out for the evening without him; he believes she is going in search of a lover. So turn the music up, cos I'm gonna show you how I dance fight "Ruby" was first recorded by Waylon Jennings in 1966. Several foreign-language versions have been recorded: Greek singer Nana Mouskouri recorded a French version entitled "Ruby, garde ton cœur ici" for her 1970 album Dans le soleil et dans le vent; Gerhard Wendland recorded a German version "Ruby, schau einmal über'n Zaun" in 1970; Pavel Bobek, Czech country singer, recorded "Oh Ruby, nechtěj mi lásku brát" in 1981; Gary Holton and Casino Steel's English-language version was a number one hit in Norway at the beginning of 1982. These moves See me strutting through the grass I'm a hotty Let the rhythm take control, feelin naughty Cos the beat in the air got me buzzing (got me buzzing) … In the original song, no children between the couple are ever mentioned. I used to be shy [14][15], Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In), "Johnny Darrell - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town / The Little Things I Love - United Artists - USA - UA 50126", "Kenny Rogers And The First Edition* - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (Vinyl)", "Go-Set Australian charts - 13 September 1969", "Top 100 Hits of 1969/Top 100 Songs of 1969", "Sort Sol – Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town", "School of Advanced Airpower Studies : The Military/Media Clash and the New Principle of War : Media Spin", Daytime Friends – The Very Best of Kenny Rogers, The Vows Go Unbroken (Always True to You), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby,_Don%27t_Take_Your_Love_to_Town&oldid=972733747, RPM Adult Contemporary number-one singles, Song recordings produced by Bob Montgomery (songwriter), Pages using infobox song with unknown parameters, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 August 2020, at 15:20.