Karaoké Reuben James Kenny Rogers & The First Edition

Ruben James in my song you live again

And the phrases that I rhyme are just the footsteps out of time

From the time when

I knew you Ruben James

Ruben James, all the folks around Madison County cussed your name

Just a no-account sharecropping colored man who would steal anything he can

And everybody laid the blame on Ruben James

Ruben James

You still walk the furrowed fields of my mind

A faded shirt the weathered brow

The calloused hand upon the plow

I loved you then and

I love you now Ruben James

Flora Gray the gossip of Madison

County died with child

And although your skin was black you were the one that didn't turn your back

On the hungry white child with no name, Ruben James

Ruben James with your mind on my soul and the bible in your right hand

You said turn the other cheek there's a better world awaiting for the meek

In my head those words remain from Ruben James

Ruben James

You still walk the furrowed fields of my mind

A faded shirt the weathered brow

The calloused hand upon the plow

I loved you then and

I love you now Ruben James

Ruben James one dark cloudy day that brought you from the fields

Until your lonely pine box came just a preacher me and the rain

Just to sing one last refrain for Ruben James

Ruben James

You still walk the furrowed fields of my mind

A faded shirt the weathered brow

The calloused hand upon the plow

I loved you then and

I love you now Ruben James

Ruben James

You still walk the furrowed fields of my mind

A faded shirt the weathered brow

The calloused hand upon the plow

I loved you then and

I love you now

Ruben James