Biography:
Lori McKenna (née Lorraine Giroux, born December 22, 1968) is an American folk singer/songwriter. Her album releases to date include Paper Wings and Halo (2000), Pieces of Me (2001), The Kitchen Tapes (2004), Bittertown (2004), Unglamorous (2007), Lorraine (2011), and Massachusetts (2013).
Lori McKenna’s first name is actually Lorraine. She is named after the mother she lost when she was only seven, but whose impact on Lori’s life reverberates to this day.
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Other songs:
- A Mother Never Rests
- Afternoons
- All A Woman Wants
- All I Ever Do
- All These Things
- Always Want You
- American Revolver
- Beautiful Man
- Better With Time
- Bible Song
- Buy This Town
- Confetti
- Cowardly Lion
- Deserving Song
- Drinkin Problem
- Fake Plastic Trees
- Falter
- Fireflies
- Girl Like Me
- Giving Up On Your Hometown
- God Never Made One Of Us To Be Alone
- God Will Thank You
- Good Marriage
- Grown Up Now
- Halfway Home
- Hardly Speaking A Word
- How Romantic Is That
- How To Be Righteous
- How To Survive
- Humble And Kind
- I Know You
- If He Tried
- If Whiskey Were A Woman
- If You Ask
- Im Not Crazy
- Instead
- Its Easy When You Smile
- Jealousy
- Ladders And Parachutes
- Leaving This Life
- Like Patsy Would
- Lone Star
- Lorraine
- Love Can Put It Back Together
- Love To Be Cruel For
- Make Every Word Hurt
- Mars
- Monday Afternoon
- Mr Sunshine
- My Love Follows You Where You Go
- My Sweetheart
- Never Be Back
- Never Die Young
- Not In This Life
- Numbered Doors
- Old Men Young Women
- One Man
- Paper Wings And Halo
- Paying The Price
- People Get Old
- Pieces Of Me
- Pink Sweater
- Pour
- Rocket Science
- Rose Of Jericho
- Rubys Shoes
- Salt
- Shouting
- Silver Bus
- Smaller And Smaller
- Starlight
- Susanna
- Swallows Me Whole
- Sweet Disposition
- Take Me With You When You Go
- Thats How You Know
- The Bird And The Rifle
- The Lot Behind St Marys
- The Luxury Of Knowing
- The Most
- The Other Boys
- The Time Ive Wasted
- This Fire
- Three Kids No Husband
- Time Ive Wasted
- Time Ive Wasted On You
- Unglamorous
- We Were Cool
- Whats One More Time
- Witness To Your Life
- Would You Love Me Then
- Wreck You
- Written Permission
- You Are Loved
- You Get A Love Song
- Your Next Lover
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Lori McKenna - Ruby's Shoes
Capo 4
[Intro]
G C G C G C G C
[Verse 1]
G C G C
Ruby's shoes would take her
G C G C
A mile or so to school every day
G C G C
Where the white people hated her
G C G C
They'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away
[Verse 2]
G C G C
But Ruby's will was stronger
G C G C
Than the bigots with the signs could ever know
G C G C
She stopped every morning on the corner
G C G C
And prayed that someday the pain would go
[Chorus]
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C
That all the hatred would go away
Dsus4 C
She was only six years old, but she knew
G C
Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
[Instrumental]
G C G C G C
[Verse 3]
G C G C
Ruby sat alone in the classroom
G C G C
She never dreamed the other children wouldn't come
G C G C
They hated her for the colour of her skin
G C G C
Well, colour is such an amazing illusion
[Chorus]
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C
That all the hatred would go away
Dsus4 C
She was only six years old, but she knew
G C
Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
[Instrumental]
G C G C G C
[Verse 4]
G C G C
Now Ruby knew about Dorothy
G C G C
And the ruby shoes that she wore
G C G C
She wondered about Oz sometimes
G C G C
Well, well no other child ever walked in her shoes before
[Chorus]
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C
That all the hatred would go away
Dsus4 C
She was only six years old, but she knew
G C G C
Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
[Bridge]
Em C D Dsus4 D
Ruby, if birds can always fly
G C
Why, oh why, can't you and I
[Instrumental]
G C G C G C
[Verse 5]
G C G C
Ruby's shoes would take her
G C G C
A mile or so to school every day
G C G C
Where the white people hated her
G C G C
They'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away
[Chorus]
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C
That all the hatred would go away
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C G C G C
That no other children would be raised this way
G C G C
Ruby's shoes
[Outro]
G C
If birds can fly
G C
Then why oh why
G C
If birds can fly
G C G C G
Then why, oh why, can't I
Capo 4
[Intro]
G C G C G C G C
[Verse 1]
G C G C
Ruby's shoes would take her
G C G C
A mile or so to school every day
G C G C
Where the white people hated her
G C G C
They'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away
[Verse 2]
G C G C
But Ruby's will was stronger
G C G C
Than the bigots with the signs could ever know
G C G C
She stopped every morning on the corner
G C G C
And prayed that someday the pain would go
[Chorus]
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C
That all the hatred would go away
Dsus4 C
She was only six years old, but she knew
G C
Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
[Instrumental]
G C G C G C
[Verse 3]
G C G C
Ruby sat alone in the classroom
G C G C
She never dreamed the other children wouldn't come
G C G C
They hated her for the colour of her skin
G C G C
Well, colour is such an amazing illusion
[Chorus]
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C
That all the hatred would go away
Dsus4 C
She was only six years old, but she knew
G C
Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
[Instrumental]
G C G C G C
[Verse 4]
G C G C
Now Ruby knew about Dorothy
G C G C
And the ruby shoes that she wore
G C G C
She wondered about Oz sometimes
G C G C
Well, well no other child ever walked in her shoes before
[Chorus]
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C
That all the hatred would go away
Dsus4 C
She was only six years old, but she knew
G C G C
Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes
[Bridge]
Em C D Dsus4 D
Ruby, if birds can always fly
G C
Why, oh why, can't you and I
[Instrumental]
G C G C G C
[Verse 5]
G C G C
Ruby's shoes would take her
G C G C
A mile or so to school every day
G C G C
Where the white people hated her
G C G C
They'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away
[Chorus]
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C
That all the hatred would go away
Dsus4 C
She'd stop and she'd pray
Dsus4 C G C G C
That no other children would be raised this way
G C G C
Ruby's shoes
[Outro]
G C
If birds can fly
G C
Then why oh why
G C
If birds can fly
G C G C G
Then why, oh why, can't I
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