Reuben James
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition

Reuben James, in my song you live again

And the phrases that I rhyme

Are just the footsteps out of time

From the time when I knew you, Reuben James


Reuben James, all the folks around Madison County

Cussed your name

You're just a no-account, sharecropping colored man

Who would steal anything he can

And everybody laid the blame on Reuben James


Reuben James, you still walk the furthest fields of my mind

Faded shirt, the weathered brow

The calloused hands upon the plow

I loved you then and I love you now, Reuben James


Flora Grey, the gossip of Madison County died with child

And although your skin was black

You were the one that didn't turn your back

On the hungry white child with no name Reuben James


Reuben James, with your mind on my soul

And a bottle 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 Reuben James


Reuben James, you still walk the furthest fields of my mind

The faded shirt, the weathered brow

The calloused hands upon the plow

I loved you then and I love you now, Reuben James


Reuben James, one dark cloudy day

They brought you from the field

Until your lonely pine box came

Just a preacher of me in the rain

Just to sing one last refrain for Reuben James


Reuben James, you still walk the furthest field of my mind

The faded shirt, the weathered brow

Your calloused hands upon the plow

I loved you then and I love you now, Reuben James


Reuben James, you still walk the furthest fields of my mind

The faded shirt, the weathered brow

The calloused hands upon the plow

I loved you then and I love you now, Reuben James


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