Ruben James

[00:04.62] Ruben James, in my song you'll live again
[00:11.59] And the phrases that I rhyme are just the footsteps out of time
[00:16.29] From the time when I knew you, Ruben James
[00:21.40] Ruben James, all the folks around Madison County cussed your name
[00:28.61] A just a no count sharecropping colored man who would steal anything can
[00:34.07] And everybody laid the blame on Ruben James
[00:39.23] Ruben James, you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
[00:46.86] The faded shirt, the weathered brow, the calloused hands upon the plow
[00:51.73] I loved you then and I love you now
[00:54.85] Ruben James
[00:57.25] Flora Gray, the gossip of Madison County died with child
[01:04.89] And although your skin was black, you were the one that didn't turn your back
[01:10.08] On the hungry white child with no name, Ruben James
[01:15.27] Ruben James, with your mind on my soul and a Bible in your right hand
[01:23.28] You said turn the other cheek, there's a better world awaiting the meek
[01:28.17] In my mind these words remain from a Ruben James
[01:33.03] Ruben James, you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
[01:40.62] The faded shirt, the weathered brow, the calloused hands upon the plow
[01:45.85] I loved you then and I love you now
[01:48.64] Ruben James
[01:50.88] Ruben James, one dark cloudy day that brought you from the field
[01:58.56] And to your lonely pine box came just a picture of me in the rain
[02:04.59] Just to sing one last refrain for Ruben James
[02:09.72] Ruben James, you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
[02:17.49] The faded shirt, the weathered brow, the calloused hands upon the plow
[02:22.34] I loved you then and I love you now
[02:25.09] Ruben James
[02:27.85] Ruben James, you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
[02:35.24] The faded shirt, the weathered brow, the calloused hands upon the plow
[02:40.17] I loved you then and I love you now
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