{"id":831,"date":"2021-05-10T05:02:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T05:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=831"},"modified":"2025-08-25T22:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:56:31","slug":"reuben-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/reuben-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuben James"},"content":{"rendered":"

[D] <\/span><\/p>\n

Reuben James, Kenny Rogers<\/span><\/p>\n

Reuben [D] James, In my [A] song you live [D] again,<\/span>
\nAnd the [G] phrases that I [D] rhyme,
\nare just the [A] footsteps out of [D] time<\/span>
\nFrom the [G] time when I [D] knew you,
\n[A] Reuben [D] James<\/span>
\nReuben [D] James<\/span>
\nAll the [D] folks around Madison [A]
\nCounty cussed your [D] name<\/span>
\nYou’re just a [G] no-account,
\nshare-cropping [D] colored man<\/span>
\nWho would [A] steal anything he [D] can<\/span>
\nAnd [G] everybody laid the [D] blame
\non [A] Reuben [D] James<\/span><\/p>\n

[A] [E]<\/span><\/p>\n

Reuben [G] James, you still walk the
\nfurrowed fields of my [D] mind<\/span>
\nThe faded [G] shirt, the weathered brow<\/span>
\nThe calloused [D] hands upon the plow<\/span>
\nI loved you [C] then and I love you now,
\nReuben [D] James<\/span><\/p>\n

[D] [E]<\/span><\/p>\n

Flora [D] Grey, The gossip of Madison
\n[A] County died with [D] child<\/span>
\nAnd [G] although your skin was [D] black<\/span>
\nYou were the [A] one that didn’t turn your [D] back<\/span>
\nOn the [G] hungry white child with [D] no name,
\n[A] Reuben [D] James<\/span>
\nReuben [D] James<\/span>
\nWith your [D] mind on my soul
\nand a [A] Bible in your right [D] hand<\/span>
\nYou said [G] “turn the other [D] cheek<\/span>
\nThere’s a [A] better world a-waiting for the [D] meek”<\/span>
\nIn my [G] mind these words [D] remain
\nfrom [A] Reuben [D] James\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }<\/span>
\nReuben [E] James, One dark, cloudy day
\nthey [B] brought you from the [E] field<\/span>
\nUntil your [A] lonely pinebox [E] came,
\nJust a [B] preacher and me in the [E] rain<\/span>
\nJust to [A] sing one last [E] refrain
\nfor [B] Reuben [A] James. { CHORUS }<\/span>Need Words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[D] Reuben James, Kenny Rogers Reuben [D] James, In my [A] song you live [D] again, And the [G] phrases that I [D] rhyme, are just the [A] footsteps out of [D] time From the [G] time when I [D] knew you, [A] Reuben [D] James Reuben [D] James All … CLICK TO VIEW SONGReuben James<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}