Key: Eb major•
Verse 1
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Ruben James,
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in my song you live again
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And the phrases that I rhyme
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are just the footsteps out of time
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For the time when I knew you,
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Ruben James
Ruben James, all the folks around Madison
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County cussed your name
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Who'd steal anything he can
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on Reuben James
Reuben James,
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you still walk the first field of my mind
Floor of gray,
the gospel of Madison
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County died with child
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And although your skin was black,
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On a hungry white child with no name,
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Reuben James
Reuben James,
with your mind on my soul
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and the Bible in your right hand
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You said, turn the other cheek,
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there's a better world waiting for the meek
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In my mind these words remain from
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Reuben James
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they brought you from the field
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came just to preach her me and the rain
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To sing one last refrain
for Reuben James
Reuben James,
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you still walk the first field of my mind
Ruben James
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