Reuben James chords by Kenny Rogers

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Verse 1
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Reuben James
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D 
In my song you live again
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D 
And the phrases that I rhyme
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D 
Are just the footsteps out of time
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D 
From the time when I knew you,
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D 
Reuben James

Verse 2
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Reuben James
All the folks around Madison
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D 
County cussed your name
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You're just a no-account,
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sharecropping colored man
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D 
Who would steal anything he can
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And everybody laid the blame
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A 
on Reuben James
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Verse 3

Reuben James,

for you still walk the furrowed field of my mind

Faded shirt, the weathered brow

The calloused hands upon the plow

I loved you then and I love you now,

Reuben James

Verse 4
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D 
Flora  Grey
The gossip of Madison
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County died with child
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And although your skin was black
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You were the one that didn't
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turn your back
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On the hungry white child with no name,
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Reuben James
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Verse 5
Reuben James
With your mind on my soul and
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a Bible in your right hand
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You said "turn the other cheek
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A-there's a a better world
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a-waiting for for the meek"
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D 
In my mind these words remain
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from Reuben James
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Verse 6
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Reuben James,
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you still walk the furrowed field of my mind
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The faded shirt, the weathered brow
D 
The calloused hands upon the plow
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I loved you then and I love you now,
Reuben James
D 

Verse 7
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Reuben Jame
One dark,
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Eb 
cloudy day they brought you from the field
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Until your lonely pinebox came
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Eb 
Just a preacher and me in the rain
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Just to sing one last refrain
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for Reuben James
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Verse 8
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Reuben James,
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you still walk the furrowed field of my mind
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The faded shirt, the weathered brow
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The calloused hands upon the plow
Db 
I loved you then and I love you now,
Reuben James
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Verse 9
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Reuben James,
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you still walk the furrowed field of my mind
Ab 
The faded shirt, the weathered brow
Eb 
The calloused hands upon the plow
Db 
I loved you then and I love you now,