Reuben

Tommy Jarrell

Traditional

Oh reuben had a train

Runs from England to Spain

But he couldn’t get no letters from his home

If you don’t believe I’ve gone

Watch this train that I call on

Lord I’m nine hundred miles away from my home

I’m nine hundred miles

Away from wife and child

Lord I wish I way nine hundred more

This train she runs right

She gets home about daylight

Lord I’m nine hundred miles away from my home

Lord Reuben went to town

Police knocked him down

He that boy a holla hundred mile

Reuben got killed on that p&o line

And his poor body never got found

They found his head in the drivers wheel

About a miles and a half from town