Lyrics The Rubettes

The Rubettes

Ladies of Laredo

Luke was cool and dendy, and though he didn't oughta

Luke was heavy handed, with his moonshine and firewater

And all those ladies loved him they would not let him

be

When they got him drinking, why he was awful free, yeah

And all those ladies of Laredo loved him,

And all the friends of the ladies them too,

I wonder what the menfolk, belonging to the

Ladies of Laredo would do, if they knew

Luke was just a good guy, trying not to cheat,

But the more he tried to put them off,

The more they thought him sweet,

And so he took to drinking, and as I previously said

With his mind half numb and blind, he took the town to

bed

And all those ladies of Laredo loved him

And all the friends of the ladies them too

I wonder what the menfolk belonging to the

Ladies of Laredo would do, if they knew

Luke he grew his hair long,

And he never shaved

Trying to be, he never bathed

Then in desperation he hid himself, down a well

But all thoes naughty women found him there

Attracted by the smell

And all thoes ladies of Laredo loved him

And all the friends of the ladies them too

I wonder what the menfolk, belonging to the

Ladies of Laredo would do, if they knew

Jake was mean and had a wife as cruel as can be

Who Luke had spurned because he learned how mean

Old Jake could be

So she told old Jake to go down to the bar

And fetch back Luke's head in an old whiskey jar

Word got round town and just like a parade

All the women came, they came out to Luke's aid

Oh, they strung up old Jake, and they carried Luke high

The last words Luke said was: "What a way to die!"

And all the ladies of Laredo loved him

And all the friends of the ladies them too

I wonder what the menfolk, belonging to the

Ladies of Laredo would do, now they knew.