Scott Walker - Reuben James Lyrics

Lyrics Reuben James - Scott Walker



Reuben James, in my song you live again
And the phrases that I rhyme
Are just footsteps out of time
From the time when I first knew you Reuben James
Reuben James all the folks around Madison County
Cursed your name
Just a no-account share-croppin colored man
Who would steal anything he can
And they always laid the blame on Reuben James
Reuben James, you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
The faded shirt, the weathered brow
The calloused hand upon the plough
I loved you then and I love you now Reuben James
Flora Gray, the gossip of Madison County died with a child
And although your skin was black
It was you that didnt turn your back
On a hungry white child with no name, Reuben James
Reuben James, with your mind on my soul
And the Bible in your right hand
You said turn the other cheek
A better world is a-waiting for the meek
In my head those words remain from Reuben James
Reuben James, you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
The faded shirt, the weathered brow
The calloused hand upon the plough
I loved you then and I love you now Reuben James
Reuben James one dark cloudy day
They brought you from the fields
And to your lonely pine box came
Just a preacher, me and the rain
To sing one last refrain for Reuben James
Reuben James, you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
The faded shirt, the weathered brow
The calloused hand upon the plough
I loved you then and I love you now Reuben James



Writer(s): Alex Harvey, Berry Etris


Scott Walker - Scott Walker - The Collection 1967-1970
Album Scott Walker - The Collection 1967-1970
date of release
01-01-2013

1 Angelica
2 The Seventh Seal
3 Angels of Ashes
4 The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To the Neo-Stalinist Regime)
5 The Girls From the Streets
6 The Lady Came From Baltimore
7 Always Coming Back To You
8 Black Sheep Boy
9 On Your Own Again
10 The World's Strongest Man
11 Duchess
12 Get Behind Me
13 Winter Night
14 Rhymes of Goodbye
15 Butterfly
16 Best of Both Worlds
17 Come Next Spring
18 Two Weeks Since You've Gone
19 When Joanna Loved Me
20 The Big Hurt
21 Two Ragged Soldiers
22 Rosemary
23 The Amorous Humphrey Plugg
24 Hero of the War
25 Time Operator
26 The War Is Over (Sleepers - Epilogue)
27 Prologue - Little Things
28 Such a Small Love
29 You're Gonna Hear From Me
30 Through a Long and Sleepless Night
31 Windows of the World
32 Copenhagen
33 We Came Through
34 Little Things (That Keep Us Together)
35 Til the Band Comes In
36 Montague Terrace (In Blue)
37 Amsterdam
38 Plastic Palace People
39 Wait Until Dark
40 The Girls and the Dogs
41 The Bridge
42 It's Raining Today
43 Big Louise
44 30 Century Man
45 Sons Of
46 Funeral Tango
47 If You Go Away
48 Boy Child
49 Joe
50 Thanks For Chicago Mr. James
51 Jean the Machine
52 Cowbells Shakin'
53 Stormy
54 The Hills of Yesterday
55 What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
56 It's Over
57 Reuben James




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