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 there's no organized crime
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were forty-nine.

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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 toward 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
They'd 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 sent his soul away
God speed the witness with something to say

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Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were sixty-four
Told Dorothy Kilgallen you'd 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 would save
And the powers behind the deals that were made
How a Presidents murder became your stock and trade

For those who are guilty who endure 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

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