Kenny Rogers - Reuben James Chords

[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Ruben James, _ [B] in my song you'll [E] live again.
_ [A] The phrases that [E] I write, [B] I think it's just [E] out of time.
[A] Time when [E] I knew [B] you, [E] Ruben James. _
_ Ruben James, _ _ all the folks around [B] Madison County have cussed [E] your name.
_ _ [A] Just a no count [E] sharecropping colored man [B] who would steal anything [E] he can.
[A] And everybody laid [E] blame [B] on [E] Ruben James.
_ [A] _ _ Ruben James, you still walk through a field [E] of my mind.
Faded [A] shirt, the weathered brow, calloused [E] hands upon the plow.
I loved [D] you then and I love you now, Ruben [E] James.
For a great, _ _ the gossip of Madison [B] County died [E] with child.
And [A] although your skin [E] was black, you [B] were the one that didn't turn [E] back.
[A] On the hungry white child [E] with no [B] name, Ruben [E] James.
_ _ Ruben James, _ _ with your mind on my soul [B] and a Bible in your [E] right hand. _
You [A] said turn the other [E] cheek, [B] there's a better world waiting [E] for the meek.
In [A] my mind these words [E] remain from Ruben James. _
_ [A] Ruben James, you still walk through a field of [E] my mind.
Faded [A] shirt, the weathered brow, [E] calloused hands upon the plow.
I [D] loved you then and I love you now, [E] Ruben James.
_ [F] Ruben James, _ one dark cloud of [C] day that 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 the same one [F] last refrain for Ruben James.
_ [Bb] _ _ Ruben James, you still walk through a field [F] of my mind.
_ [Bb] Faded shirt, the weathered brow, [F] calloused hands upon the plow.
[Eb] I loved you then and I love you now, [F] Ruben James.
[Bb] Ruben James, you still walk through a field of my [F]
mind.
[Bb] Faded shirt, the weathered brow, [F] calloused hands upon the plow.
[Eb] I loved you then and I love you now, Ruben [F] James.