Chords for Ruben James

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_ _ _ _ Ruben James, _ in my [B] song you'll live [E] again
_ [A] And the phrases [E] that I write [B] are footsteps [E] out of time
[A] From the time when I knew you, [E] Ruben James
_ Ruben James, _ all the folks around [B] Madison County
[E] Cussed your name, _ [A] just a no-count [E] sharecropping colored man
[B] Who would steal [E] anything he can
[A] And everybody laid the blame on [E] Ruben James
_ [A] Ruben James, you still walk the furrowed fields of [E] my mind
[A] Faded shirt, the weather's brown, the [E] calloused hands upon the plow
I [D] loved you then and I love you now, [E] Ruben James
Flora Gray, _ the gossip of [B] Madison County [E] died with child
_ [A] And although your skin [E] was black, [B] you were the one that didn't turn your back
[A] On the hungry white child with no name, [E] Ruben James
_ Ruben James, _ with your mind on my [B] soul and a Bible in your [E] right hand
_ [A] You said, turn the [E] other cheek, [B] there's a better world waiting [E] for the meet
In [A] my mind these [E] words remain from Ruben James
_ [A] Ruben James, you still walk the furrowed fields [E] of my mind
Faded [A] shirt, the weather's brown, the [E] calloused hands upon the plow
I [D] loved you then and I love you now, [E] Ruben James
_ [F] Ruben James, _ for one dark cloudy [C] day they brought you [F] from the field
_ [Bb] Until your lonely [F] pine box came, [C] just a picture of [F] me in the rain
[Bb] Just to sing one [F] last refrain for Ruben James
_ [Bb] Ruben James, you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
[Bb] Faded shirt, the weather's brown, the [F] calloused hands upon the plow
I [Eb] loved you then and I love you now, [F] Ruben James
_ _ [Bb] Ruben James, you still walk the furrowed fields [F] of my mind
[Bb] Faded shirt, the weather's brown, the calloused hands [F] upon the plow
[Eb] I loved you then and I love you now _ _ _ _ _ _