Reuben James - Stephen R Cheney
Reuben james
In my song you live again
And the phrase that I rhyme
Are just a footstep out of time
From the time when I knew you
Reuben james
Reuben james
All the folks around hadison county
'Cussed your name
You're just a no count
Sharecropping colored man
You'd steal anything you can
And everybody laid the blame
On reuben james
Reuben james for you still walk
Over fields of my mind
Faded shirt weathered brow
Colored hands upon the plow
Loved you then and I love you now
Reuben james
For a grave
The gossiper of hadison county
Died with chide
Although your skin was black
You were the one
That didn't turn your back
On the hungry
White child with no name
Reuben james reuben james
With your mind on the soul
And a bottle in your right hand
You said turn the other cheek
For there's a better world
Awaiting for the meek
In my mind these words remain
From reuben james
Reuben james for you still walk
Over fields of my mind
Faded shirt weathered brow
Colored hands upon the plow
Loved you then and I love you now
Reuben james
Reuben james one dark cloudy day
They brought you from the field
And to your lonely crambox
Came just me a preacher and the rain
Just to sing one last
Refrain to reuben james
Reuben James useed to walk
Over fields of my mind
Faded shirt weathered brow
Colored hands upon the plow
Loved you then and I love you now
Reuben James
Reuben James useed to
Over fields of my mind
Faded shirt weathered brow
Colored hands upon the plow
Loved you then and I love you now
Reuben James