Kenny Rogers - Rueben James lyrics

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