C
G7
C
Rueben James in my song you’ll live a gain
F
C
And the phrases that I rhyme
G7
C
Are just the footsteps out-a time
F
C
G7
C
From a time when I knew Rueben James
G7
C
Rueben James all the folks around Madison County cussed your name
F
C
Just a no account share-cropping colored man
G7
C
Who steal anything he can
F
C
G7
C
And everybody laid the blame on Rueben James
F
C
Rueben James you still walk the fertile fields of my mind
F
Faded shirt weathered brow
C
Callused hands upon the plow
F
G7
C
I loved you then and I love you now Rueben James
G7
C
Flora Graves the gossip of Madison County died with child
F
C
And although your skin was black
G7
C
You were the one who didn’t turn your back
F
C
G7
C
On a hungry white child with no name Rueben James
G7
C
Rueben James with your mind on my soul and a bible in your right hand
F
C
You said turn the other cheek
G7
C
There’s a better world waiting for the meek
F
C
G7
C
In my mind these words re main from Rueben James
F
C
Rueben James you still walk the fertile fields of my mind
F
Faded shirt weathered brow
C
Callused hands upon the plow
F
G7
C
I loved you then and I love you now Rueben James
C
G7
F
