Key: E major•
Verse 1
E
Reuben James,
B
in my song you live again
E
Verse 2
A
E
And the phrases that I rhyme
B
A
E
Are just footsteps out of time
A
E
From the time when I first knew
B
E
you Reuben James
Reuben James all the folks
B
around Madison County
E
Cursed your name
A
Just a no- account share-
E
croppin colored man
B
A
Who would steal anything he can
E
A
And they always laid the blame
E
B
E
on Reuben James
A
Reuben James,
you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
E
Verse 3
The faded shirt,
A
the weathered brow
E
The calloused hand upon the plough
D
I loved you then and I love you
E
now Reuben James
Flora Gray, the gossip of Madison
B
E
County died with a child
A
E
And although your skin was black
B
E
It was you that didnt turn your back
A
E
On a hungry white child with no name,
B
E
Reuben James
B
Reuben James,
E
with your mind on my soul
B
E
And the Bible in your right hand
A
E
You said turn the other cheek
B
A
E
A better world is a- waiting for the meek
A
E
In my head those words remain
from Reuben James
A
Reuben James, you still walk the
furrowed fields of my mind
E
Verse 4
A
The faded shirt, the weathered brow
E
The calloused hand upon the plough
D
I loved you then and I love you now
E
A
E
Reuben James
F
Reuben James one dark
cloudy day
C
F
They brought you from the fields
Bb
F
And to your lonely pine box came
C
Bb
F
Just a preacher, me and the rain
Bb
F
To sing one last refrain
C
F
for Reuben James
Bb
Reuben James,
you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
F
Verse 5
The faded shirt,
Bb
the weathered brow
F
The calloused hand upon the plough
Eb
F
I loved you then and I love you now
F#
F
Reuben James
Outro 1
Bb
F
Bb
F
Eb
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE B A D F...
E
B
A
D
F
C
Bb
Eb
F#
Capo: 2
Transpose: 0
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