
Date of issue: 19.07.2014
Song language: English
Ruben James (Re-Recorded) |
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 |
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