Reuben James (Demonstration Version - Includes Lead Singer)

Reuben James (Demonstration Version - Includes Lead Singer) - Stingray Music (Karaoke)

Reuben James in my song you'll 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'd steal anything he can

And everybody laid the blame on Reuben James

Reuben James you still walk

The furrowed 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

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 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 Reuben James

Reuben James you still walk

The furrowed 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 and me in the rain

Just to sing one last refrain for Reuben James

Reuben James you still walk

The furrowed 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 you still walk

The furrowed 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