Ruth 1936 Lyrics

She was a schoolteacher in a little town

Somewhere in West Virginia

She would come home to her daddy

Beating her mom when she walked in

One day she had enough

Of what he'd done and what he said

So she went upstairs and grabbed a gun

And put a bullet in his head

Oh he had it coming

Everybody knows he had it coming

Well the guy she was dating

Was a diver in the Navy

Then Ruth and him got married

And she bore him a baby

Arch was a boxer

Sailors loved to watch him fight

Every year the Navy moved them

She held on with all her might

Then the fights moved from the ring

Into their home

She said stay here with me

Or you are on your own

But Arch signed the papers

So the Navy had his soul

When his orders came in

He had to leave her all alone

Oh he had it coming

Everybody knows he had it coming