Lori McKenna - Ruby's Shoes lyrics

Ruby's shoes would take her A mile or so to school every day Where the white people hated her They'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away But Ruby's will was stronger Than the bigots with the signs could ever know She stopped every morning on the corner And prayed that someday the pain would go And she'd stop and she'd pray That all the hatred would go away She was only six years old but she knew Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes Ruby sat alone in the cla**room She never dreamed the other children wouldn't come They hated her for the color of her skin Well color is such an amazing illusion She'd stop and she'd pray That all the hatred would go away She was only six years old but she knew Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes Now Ruby knew about Dorothy And the ruby shoes that she wore She wondered about Oz sometimes Well, well no other child ever walked her shoes before And she'd stop and she'd pray That all the hatred would go away She was only six years old but she knew Walk a mile in Ruby's shoes Ruby, if birds can always fly Why oh why can't you and I? Ruby's shoes would take her A mile or so to school every day Where the white people hated her They'd scream and hold signs and tell her to go away And she'd stop and she'd pray That all the hatred would go away She'd stop and she'd pray That no other children would be raised this way Ruby's shoes If birds can fly Then why oh why If birds can fly then why oh why can't I