in my song you'll live again
And the phrases that I rhyme are
just the footsteps out of time
From the time when I knew
Hey Reuben James all the folks around
Madison Caunty cussed your name
Just a no count of colored man who'd
steal anything that he can
And they al ways laid the blame
Hey Reuben James you still walk the
furrowed fields of my mind
The faded shirt the wrinkled brow
the calloused hand upon the plow
I loved you then and I love
Hey Flora Gray well the gossip of Madison
County died with the child
And although your skin was black you
were the one who didn't turn your back
On a hungry white child with
Hey Reuben James with your mind on my
soul and Bible in your right hand
You said turn the other cheek there's
a better world waitin' for the meek
In my head those words re
Hey Reuben James you still walk...
Oh Reuben James one cold dark day
they brought you from the fields
And that lonely pinebox came just a
To sing one last refrain for Reuben James
Oh Reuben James you still
