“Ravishing Ruby” —The True Story of A Truck Stop Waitress.

https://youtu.be/sPexvxbYn0A?si=KKHemt\_d-eMoMnz6 I’m not a professional driver, but I’m a country musician that collects truck-driving songs. This song was written by the great country songwriter, Tom T. Hall. The song tells the \*true story\* of a waitress who had been abandoned as a child at a truck stop, and worked there for years— waiting for her father to return. The story was relayed to him by a truck driver in Redding, CA in the early 1970s. I’m wondering if any of your grandpas might’ve known this lady… —\*Ravishing Ruby\* Ravishing Ruby, she's been around for awhile Ravishing Ruby, she was a truckstop child Born in the back of a rig, somewhere near L.A. Ravishing Ruby, you poured a lot of hot coffee in your day Ravishing Ruby, believe anything you say Just like her daddy said, said he'd be back someday She was just fourteen, she grew up wild and free And all the time she's been waitin' on him, she's been waiting on you and me Ravishing Ruby, she sleeps in a bunk out back Her days and nights are filled with dreams of a man named Smilin' Jack That was her daddy's name and that's all she ever knew Ravishing Ruby ain't got time for guys like me and you Ravishing Ruby, a beautiful young girl now Ravishing Ruby, she made a solemn vow She’s Waitin' on Smilin' Jack, he'll come rollin' by And she wants to see him she wants to touch him either way, dead or alive Ravishing Ruby, she sleeps in a bunk out back Her days and nights are filled with dreams of a man named Smilin' Jack That was her daddy's name and that's all she ever knew Ravishing Ruby ain't got time for guys like me and you