澳洲熱門紅星［海倫芮迪］最討厭的歌曲──國際暢銷曲──［Leave Me Alone（Ruby Red Dress）／別打擾我（寶石紅禮服）］

Big ole ruby red dress wanders round the town

Talkin to herself now, sometimes sitten down

Dont you get too close now, ruby runs away

Poor ole ruby red dress born on a sorry day

I can hear her say

[Chorus]

Leave me alone, wont you leave me alone

Please leave me alone now, leave me alone

Leave me alone, please leave me alone, yes leave me

Leave me alone wont you leave me alone

Please leave me alone, no leave me alone

Leave me along, just leave me alone, oh leave me

Big ole ruby red dress, everybody laughs

Say shes got no future and never made no past

Something hurt that ruby, shomething she cant bear

Ya look at her real close now, you see a little tear

When she says now

[Chorus]

Some folks say some farm boy up from Tennessee

Taught it all to Ruby, then just let her be

Her daddy tried to hide it, tried to keep things cool

But something happened to Ruby, she broke down to a fool

Who just said now

[Chorus]

Songwriters

LAURIE, LINDA

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Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group

１９７２年末　來自澳洲的歌手海倫芮迪（Helen Reddy）以［I Am Woman］單曲＆專輯大紅, 成為歌壇熱門歌手

１９７３年８月　唱片公司乘勝追擊　發行第四張大碟［Long Hard Climb］

首支主打［Delta Dawn］登上美國, 澳洲排行榜冠軍, 成為芮迪另一首金曲

１９７３年１０月　３２歲的海倫推出第二主打［Leave Me Alone（Ruby Red Dress）／別打擾我（寶石紅禮服）］

這是詞曲家／歌手Linda Laurie的作品, 當年稍早自己先灌錄

之後被唱片公司Capital買給芮迪

海倫版由Tom Catalano製作成輕快的中板流行曲

歌曲中她總共唱了４３次‘Leave Me Alone’

儘管她擔心這是［Delta Dawn］的翻新, 反應會不佳

但Capital的決定卻是對的

因為［Leave Me Alone（Ruby Red Dress）］登上美國單曲榜＃３　銷售逾百萬, 成為她第三張金唱片

另外也讓她二度在Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary榜稱后

連栩兩首單曲成功, 讓［Long Hard Climb］銷售頗佳,成為芮迪在美國第二張百萬金唱片

在澳洲, 這是海倫第二首單曲榜冠軍

另外紐西蘭＃４　加拿大＃５

儘管［Leave Me Alone（Ruby Red Dress）］的成功

但因為歌詞不停重覆,導致芮迪並不喜歡此曲

２０１３年海倫接受彷談提到：她將不會再演唱［Leave Me Alone（Ruby Red Dress）］

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlkZrKiOgPI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDx-tZHjuvE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULKEBJRC0gs

TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKfqHsiHWJU