16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower’s “Ruthie Lingle” is the fifth track on the band’s 1996 release, Sackcloth ‘n’ Ashes. The song is a jaunty ode to young lust filled by the narrator’s implorings to the women around him to “take him home.”
In an interview with No Depression, frontman David Eugene Edwards related that t...
[Verse 1]
Blue Ruthie Lingle, take me home
Sad-eyed Suzanna, take me home
The curse of those red lips all on me
Goddess Samantha, take me home
[Verse 2]
Black-eyed Rebecca, take me home
Here, buxom Gretta, take me home
Legs, thighs, and navel, you're the only one
Leah Samantha, take me home
[Verse 3]
Meek mother Mary, take me home
Sweet sister Sarah, take me home
Underneath the floorboards, down here eating dirt
Seduce me, Samantha, take me home
Ruthie Lingle was produced by Warren Bruleigh.
16 Horsepower released Ruthie Lingle on Tue Feb 06 1996.