They say she came all the way from Dallas But I see more than Texas in the hard times on her face And every song she sings brings back a hundred thousand memories Of another girl, another time, another place She does not have the body of the woman I once loved But she's still the girl that I once idolized And, I swear, I see a little bit of every girl I've known In the loneliness of ruby's eyes, in the loneliness of ruby's eyes Kinfolks say she's had a lot of lovers And love don't leave a woman filled with shame And I've heard tell she had a child in Dallas And all the men in Houston know her name