Reuben James Lyrics - Jerry Lee Lewis

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 

Hey, Reuben James all the folks around 

Madison County cussed your name 

Just a no count of colored man 

Who'd steal anything that he can 

And they always laid the blame 

On Reuben James 

Hey, Reuben James you still walk 

The furrowed fields of my mind 

The faded shirt, the wrinkled brow 

The calloused hand upon the plow 

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I loved you then 

And I love you now Reuben James 

Hey, Flora Gray, well, the gossip 

Of Madison County died with the child 

And although your skin was black 

You were the one who didn't turn your back 

On a hungry white child 

With no name Reuben James 

Hey, Reuben James with your mind on my soul 

And Bible in your right hand 

You said turn the other cheek 

There's a better world waitin' for the meek 

In my head those words remain 

From Reuben James 

Hey, Reuben James you still walk 

The furrowed fields of my mind 

The faded shirt, the wrinkled brow 

The calloused hand upon the plow 

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I loved you then 

And I love you now Reuben James 

Oh, Reuben James one cold dark day 

They brought you from the fields 

And that lonely pine box came 

Just a preacher me and the rain 

To sing one last refrain for Reuben James 

Oh, Reuben James you still walk 

The furrowed fields of my mind 

The faded shirt, the wrinkled brow 

The calloused hand upon the plow 

I loved you then 

And I love you now Reuben James