Key: E major•
Verse 1
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Reuben James in my
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song you'll 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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From the time when I knew you,
Verse 2
Reuben James.
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Reuben James all the folks
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Just a no count share
croppin' colored man
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Who'd steal anything that he can
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And they always laid the blame on,
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Verse 3
wrinkled brow
Reuben James.
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Verse 4
Flora Gray the gossip of Madison
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County died with the 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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Verse 5
Reuben James with your mind on my soul
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And Bible in your right hand
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You said turn the other cheek
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In my mind these words remain from,
Verse 6
Reuben James.
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Reuben James.
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Verse 7
Reuben James one cold dark day
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They brought you from the fields
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And that lonely pinebox came
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Just a preacher me and the rain
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To sing one last refrain for,
Verse 8
Reuben James.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE D B A
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