Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Reuben James, artist - Kenny Rogers. Date of issue: 09.01.2012
Song language: English
Reuben James |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |