Lyrics Ruben James.lrc Kenny Rogers
[id: aegkznjm]
[ar: Kenny Rogers]
[al: Hits]
[ti: Ruben James]
[length: 02:48]
[00:04.28]Reuben James
[00:07.28]In my song you live again
[00:10.90]And the phrases that I rhyme
[00:13.43]Are just the footsteps out of time
[00:15.97]From the time when I knew you, Reuben James
[00:21.16]Reuben James
[00:23.86]All the folks around Madison County cussed your name
[00:28.51]You’re just a no-account, sharecropping colored man
[00:31.14]Who would steal anything he can
[00:33.62]And everybody laid the blame on Reuben James
[00:38.67]Reuben James, you still walk the furrowed field of my mind
[00:46.31]Faded shirt, the weathered brow
[00:48.85]The calloused hands upon the plow
[00:51.58]I loved you then and I love you now, Reuben James
[00:56.53]Flora Grey
[00:59.89]The gossip of Madison County died with child
[01:04.25]And although your skin was black
[01:07.06]You were the one that didn’t turn your back
[01:09.42]On the hungry white child with no name, Reuben James
[01:14.68]Reuben James
[01:17.67]With your mind on my soul and a Bible in your right hand
[01:22.69]You said, “Turn the other cheek
[01:25.11]A-there’s a better world a-waiting for the meek”
[01:27.60]In my mind these words remain from Reuben James
[01:32.62]Reuben James, you still walk the furrowed field of my mind
[01:40.39]The faded shirt, the weathered brow
[01:42.86]The calloused hands upon the plow
[01:45.62]I loved you then and I love you now, Reuben James
[01:50.53]Reuben James
[01:53.85]One dark, cloudy day they brought you from the field
[01:58.80]Until your lonely pinebox came
[02:01.51]Just a preacher and me in the rain
[02:04.04]Just to sing one last refrain for Reuben James
[02:09.00]Reuben James, you still walk the furrowed field of my mind
[02:16.44]The faded shirt, the weathered brow
[02:19.12]The calloused hands upon the plow
[02:21.67]I loved you then and I love you now, Reuben James
[02:26.91]Reuben James, you still walk the furrowed field of my mind
[02:34.64]The faded shirt, the weathered brow
[02:37.12]The calloused hands upon the plow
[02:39.93]I loved you then and I love you now…
[02:41.02]Year of Release: 1977