Jack Ruby - Paul Metsa

"Jack Ruby" from the album "Whistling Past the Graveyard". Words & Music by Paul Metsa / Paul Metsa Music - BMI.

MP3 and CD available at Itunes, Amazon, CDBaby.com, PaulMetsa.com and MaximumFolk.com.

Live performance recorded October 23, 1991
Paul Metsa - Guitar, Vocals
Jimmy Anton - Bass
Emanuel Kiriakou - Guitar, Vocals
Jesse Wheeler - Percussion

JACK RUBY
Chorus:

Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby in a Cavanaugh hat,

whoever taught you to shoot a pistol like that

Oh, you snuck in the basement

and you stood in the back,

Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby in a Cavanaugh hat

Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were fifteen years old

on the south side of Chicago you looked up to Capone,

stole girls lunch money beat boys on their way home

Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were fifteen years old

Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were twenty-one,

you traded brass knuckles for a caliber gun,

in the Sherman hotel bootleg whiskey did run

Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were twenty-one

Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were thirty-five,

set up shop in Dallas had nothing to hide,

a nightclub with hookers and cops side by side

Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were thirty-five

Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were forty-nine,

at the Carousel Club you kept the judges in line,

J. Edgar Hoover said theres no organized crime

Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were forty-nine

Repeat Chorus
Did the kingfish in New Orleans give you the key,

the numbers to contact the men you should see,

a confederate cloak of conspiracy,

with an eye towards November 1963

When the motorcade turned on Houston and Elm,

into the crossfire where Camelot fell

Were the shots from the window or 6th floor window well?

In Dealey Plaza more than three empty shells

Was Lee Harvey Oswald the only one?

What of those in the bushes who started to run

With secret service credentials and government guns,

theyd answer no questions for what they had done

Oswald was set up so he did say

before he appeared in the basement driveway

On live television Ruby blew his soul away,

God speed the witness with something to say

(Repeat Chorus)
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were sixty-four,

told Dorothy Kilgallen youd even the score,

from your jail cell gave names and numbers and more,

in forty eight hours she lay dead on the floor

Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby come back from the grave,

tell us for real whose lives you did save

And the powers behind the deals that were made,

how a Presidents murder became your stock and trade

For those who are guilty are alive to this day,

got their visas in D.C. and got on their way,

others laid low until election day,

a day of high treason and a quick getaway

Did the Warren Commission mean what they say?

Did the mob or oil money get in the way?

Did the shadow of Cuba darken the day?

In Dallas County the land of LBJ

In Dallas County the land of LBJ

(Repeat Chorus)

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• twin cities
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• st. paul
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• country
• folk
• blues

[jackstpaul]

Is that Jimmy Anton and Manny?

[madangel47]

God, Paul, I LOVE this song! Nice to see you've got some vids posted. Cheers! Paula

[fbeacham]

Excellent, first rate performance!