Reuben James (鲁本·詹姆斯) - La Banda del Recuerdo

Reuben James

In my song you live again

And the phrases

That I rhyme

Are just a footstep out of time

From the time when I knew you Reuben James

Reuben James

All the folks around hadison county

Cussed your name

You're just a no count sharecropping colored man

You'd steal anything you can

And everybody laid the blame on Reuben James

Reuben James

For you still walk over fields of my mind

Faded shirt weathered brow caloused hands upon the plow

Loved you then and I love you now Reuben James

For a grave

The gossiper of hadison county died with chid

Although your skin was black

You were the one that didn't turn your back

On the hungry white child with no name Reuben James

Reuben James with your mind on the soul

And a bottle in your right hand

You said turn the other cheek

For there's a better world awaiting for the meek

In my mind these words remain from Reuben James

Reuben James

You still walk over for fields of my mind

Faded shirt weathered brow

Caloused hands upon the plow

Loved you then and I love you now Reuben James

Reuben James one dark cloudy day

They brought you from the field

And to your lonely pinebox

Came just a preacher me and the rain

Just to sing one last refrain to Reuben James

Reuben James

You still walk over for fields of my mind

Faded shirt weathered brow

Caloused hands upon the plow

Loved you then and I love you now Reuben James

Reuben James

You still walk over for fields of my mind

Faded shirt weathered brow

Caloused hands upon the plow

Loved you then and I love you now Reuben James