Pete Seeger - The Sinking of the Reuben James Lyrics

Lyrics The Sinking of the Reuben James - Pete Seeger



Have you heard of a ship called the good Reuben James
Manned by hard fighting men both of honor and fame?
She flew the Stars and Stripes of the land of the free
But tonight she's in her grave at the bottom of the sea
Tell me, what were their names, tell me, what were their names?
Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
What were their names, tell me, what were their names?
Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
It was there in the dark of that uncertain night
That we watched for the U-boats and waited for the fight
Then a whine and a rock and a great explosion roared
And they laid the Reuben James on that cold ocean floor
Tell me, what were their names, tell me, what were their names?
Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
What were their names, tell me, what were their names?
Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
Now, tonight there are lights in our country so bright
In the farms and in the cities they're telling of the fight
And now our mighty battleships will steam the bounding main
And remember the name of that good Reuben James
Tell me, what were their names, tell me, what were their names?
Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
What were their names, tell me, what were their names?
Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?



Writer(s): Woody Guthrie


Pete Seeger - Songs of Freedom & Protest
Album Songs of Freedom & Protest
date of release
25-09-2012

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2 Guantanamera (Live)
3 House of the Rising Sun
4 Frankie and Johnnie
5 Henry Martin
6 Fare You Well, Polly
7 Fare Thee Well (10,000 Miles)
8 I've Been Working on the Railroad
9 Silver Dagger
10 John Brown's Body
11 East Virginia
12 He Lies in the American Land
13 Wildwood Flower
14 Ox Driver's Song
15 All My Trials
16 We Shall Not Be Moved
17 Donna Donna
18 Frog Went A-Courting
19 John Riley
20 The Fox
21 El Preso Numero Nueve
22 Rake & Rambling Boy
23 Mary Hamilton
24 Little Moses
25 Jesse James
26 Barbara Allen
27 John Henry
28 Silkie
29 Casey Jones
30 Railroad Boy
31 Talking Union
32 Plaisir D'amour
33 Which Side Are You On?
34 Once I Knew a Pretty Girl
35 All I Want
36 Banks of the Ohio
37 Union Maid
38 Engine 143
39 Goodnight, Irene
40 Lonesome Road
41 The Bells of Rhymney
42 Pal of Mine
43 Wasn't That a Time? (Live)
44 The Cherry Tree Carol
45 We Shall Overcome (Live)
46 Wagoner's Lad
47 Guantanamera
48 Lily of the West
49 The Sinking of the Reuben James
50 Old Blue
51 Follow the Drinking Ground
52 The Trees They Do Grow High
53 What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby
54 Well May the World Go
55 O What a Beautiful City
56 Careless Love
57 Sail Away Ladies
58 One Grain Of Sand - Abiyoyo
59 Black Is the Colour
60 Sixteen Tons
61 The Banks of the Ohio
62 Rock Island Line
63 Lowlands
64 The Strange Death of John Doe
65 Don't Weep After Me
66 Song for Bridges
67 Kitty
68 So Soon the Morning
69 Careless Love




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