Reuben James chords by
Johnny Doe
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Key: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Ruben
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James, my song you'll live again,
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and the phrases that I rhyme are just the footsteps
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out of time, from the time
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when I knew you,
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Ruben
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James,
Ruben
James, all the folks around
Verse 2
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County cursed your name
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Verse 3
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Just an old -cow sharecropper
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colored man
Verse 4
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Who'd steal anything he can
Verse 5
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And they always laid the blame on
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Reuben
James
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Verse 6
Reuben
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James, you still bought fur
old heels of my mind
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Verse 7
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Painted shirt withered brow,
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calloused hand upon plow
Verse 8
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Loved you then and I love you now,
Reuben
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James
Poor, great, gossip of
Madison
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County died, you child
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And although your skin was black,
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it was you who didn't turn your back
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On a hungry white child with no name,
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Reuben
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James
Reuben
James
With your mind on my soul and a
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Bible in your right hand
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You said, the other cheek
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A better world is a -waitin' for the me
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In my head these words remain,
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Reuben
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Jane
Reuben
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Jane
You still bought her old
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heels to buy mine
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Painted shirts, quivered brows,
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calloused hands upon a plow
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I loved you then and I love you now,
Ruba
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Jane
Ooh,
Ruba
Jane
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One dark, day that brought
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you from the field
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And to your lonely pine box came just
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a preacher and me in the rain
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To sing a last refrain,
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Reuben
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James,
Reuben
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James
You still want the pearl
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cues of my mind
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Painted shirt, withered brow,
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gallant stand upon the plow
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I loved you then and I love you now,
Outro 1
we're change
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