Ruby Rubenstein was a fruit and vegetable man His motto was I take care Six mornings a week long before the sun was up Ruby was Is it time Ruby his wife Trudy always asked from deep under the covers
It's time Ruby always answered Then he'd jump out of bed touch his knees then his toes and hurry uptown to market to choose the ripest fruit and vegetables for his store
For nearly fifty years it had been so ever since he and Trudy first sailed across the ocean to make a new life together Every morning before school Sun Ho and his sister Young Mee who with their family had just flown across the sky to make a new life together came to watch Ruby work his magic Yo ho Mr Ruby Sun Ho would call out Show me
