TEXAS RUBY   Written by A.J. Croce and Gary Nicholson,   Croce Publishing (ASCAP)/Gary Nicholson Music (ASCAP)   She climbed on to my street car   Just before it turned St. Charles   More woman than I've ever seen   And she was wrigglin' outa her jeans   It must have been a hundred and three   Cause it was August down in New Orleans   She looked right through me   Said excuse me   Introduced me   Texas Ruby is my name   It was nothing but a string bikini   That was underneath them old blue jeans   And her t-shirt was soaking wet   It's only natural that the woman would sweat   But she took it off and tossed it away   Lord I was struggling for something to say   She said you really must excuse me   These old clothes are sticking to me   Texas Ruby is my name   Texas Ruby   Lord she put it to me   That lone star beauty   Known as Texas Ruby   How was a California boy to know   She made a living stripping out of her clothes   And although she had never knew me   Or how she was getting to me   Texas Ruby blew my mind   Later on down on Bourbon street   You'd never guess who I chanced to meet   It's not so much that I recalled the face   But all the other parts were right in place   And when she saw me standing by the bandstand   well she reached out and took my hand   she said I usually don't perform   On a street car down St. Charles   But New Orleans heat just got to me   Texas Ruby   Lord she put it to me   That lone star beauty   Known as Texas Ruby   Now every time I climb on street car   That's rattling down St. Charles   I'm just a boy of seventeen   On his first day in New Orleans   Seeing thing he'd never dreamed he'd see   From a girl who said excuse me   Showed it all then introduced me   Saying Texas Ruby is my name   Lord her memory drives me insane   Texas Ruby was her name