Rueben James

Kenny Rogers
seq by ChartChai MeeSangNin - kar by Mike M (December 2000)
lyrics transcribed by H. Lee Rankin
Sequenced by ChartChai MeeSangNin (jeridu@yahoo.com).

Sequenced: November, 1999GM/GS file, Optimised for Roland SC-88 Pro.Sequenced by ChartChai MeeSangNin (jeridu@yahoo.com).

Rueben James
In my song you'll live again
And the phrases that I rhyme
Are just the footsteps outa time
From a time when I knew Rueben James

Rueben James
All the folks around Madison County cussed your name
Just a no account sharecroppin colored man
Who'll steal anything he can
And everybody laid the blame on Rueben James

Rueben James
You still walk the fertile fields of my mind
Faded shirt weathered brow
Callused hands upon the plow
I loved you then and I love you now Rueben James

Flora Graves
The gossip of Madison County died with child
And although your skin was black
You were the one who didn't turn your back
On a hungry white child with no name Rueben James

Rueben James
With your mind on my soul
and a bible in your right hand
You said turn the other cheek
There's a better world waitin' for the meek
In my mind these words remain from Rueben James

Rueben James
You still walk the fertile fields of my mind
Faded shirt weathered brow
Callused hands upon the plow
I loved you then and I love you now Rueben James

Rueben James
One dark cloudy day they brought you from the field
And to your lonely pine box came
Just a preacher me and the rain
To sing one last refrain for Rueben James

Rueben James
You still walk the fertile fields of my mind
Faded shirt weathered brow
Callused hands upon the plow
I loved you then and I love you now Rueben James

Rueben James
You still walk the fertile fields of my mind
Faded shirt weathered brow
Callused hands upon the plow
I loved you then and I love you now Rueben James

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