Reuben James chords by The Almanac Singers

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Have you heard
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of a ship called the good Reuben James
Manned by hard working men
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G 
both of honor and fame
She flew the stars and stripes
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G 
of the land of the free
But tonight she's in her grave
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G 
on the bottom of the sea

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Verse 2

Tell me: what were their names?

Did you have a friend on the

good Reuben James?

What were their names?

Tell me: what were their names?

Did you have a friend on the

good Reuben James?

Verse 3
G 
One hundred men were drowned
in that dark watery grave
When that good ship went down
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G 
only 44 were saved
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G 
Was the last day of October
we saved the 44
From that cold icy waters of that cold iceland
shore

Verse 4
G 
Tell me: what were their names? Tell me: what
were their names?
C 
G 
D 
Did you have a friend on the
G 
good Reuben James?
What were their names?
D 
G 
C 
G 
Tell me: what
were their names?
Did you have a friend on
the good Reuben James?

Verse 5
G 
It was there in the dark
of that uncertain night
That we watched for the u-
boats and waited for a fight
Then a whine and a rock, and the great
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Ab 
explosion roared
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Eb 
And they laid the Reuben James
G 
on that cold ocean floor

Verse 6
Tell me: what were their names?
C 
Tell me: what were their names?
D 
Did you have a friend on the
G 
good Reuben James?
What were their names?
C 
Tell me: what were their names?
D 
Did you have a friend on the
G 
good Reuben James?

Verse 7
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Now tonight there are lights
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G 
in our country so bright
In the farms and in the cities
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G 
they're telling of the fight
And now our mighty battleships
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G 
Will steam the bounding main
And remember the name of
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G 
that good Reuben James

Verse 8
G 
Tell me: what were their names?
C 
Tell me: what were their names?
D 
G 
Did you have a friend on
the good Reuben James?
What were their names?
C 
Tell me: what were their names?
D 
Did you have a friend on
G 
the good Reuben James?