Rueben James Lyrics - Kenny Rogers

Rueben James, in my song you live again 

And the phrase that I rhyme 

Are just the footstep out of time 

From the time when I knew you, Rueben James 

Rueben 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 Rueben James 

Rueben James, for still walk over fields of my mind 

Faded shirt, weathered brow 

Call used hands upon the plow 

Loved you then and I love you now, Rueben James 

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Flora Graves the gossiper of Hadison County 

Died with child although your skin was black 

You were the one that didn't turn your back 

On the 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 

For there's a better world awaiting for the meek 

In my mind these words remain from Rueben James 

Rueben James, for still walk over fields of my mind 

Faded shirt, weathered brow 

Callused hands upon the plow 

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 

Just to sing one last refrain to Rueben James 

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Rueben James, for still walk over fields of my mind 

Faded shirt, weathered brow 

Callused hands upon the plow 

Loved you then and I love you now Rueben James 

Rueben James, for still walk over fields of my mind 

Faded shirt, weathered brow 

Callused hands upon the plow 

Loved you then and I love you now Rueben James