Ruben James
Ruben James
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 you
Ruben James
Ruben James
All the folks around Madison County
Cussed your name
Just a no-count 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
The faded shirt, the weathered brow
The calloused hands 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 a Bible in your right hand
You said turn the other cheek
It's a better world awaiting for the meek
In my mind these words remain from Ruben James
Ruben James
You still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
The faded shirt, the weathered brow
The calloused hands upon the plow
I loved you then and I love you now
Ruben James
Ruben James
One dark cloudy day they brought you from the field
Until your lonely pine box came
Just to feature me in the rain
Just to sing one last refrain for Ruben James
Ruben James
You still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
The faded shirt, the weathered brow
The calloused hands 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
The faded shirt, the weathered brow
The calloused hands upon the plow
I loved you then and I love you now
Ruben James