| Have you heard of a ship called the good Reuben James
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| Manned by hard working men both of honor and fame
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| She flew the stars and stripes of the land of the free
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| But tonight she’s in her grave on the bottom of the sea
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| Tell me: what were their names?
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| Tell me: what were their names?
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| Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
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| What were their names?
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| Tell me: what were their names?
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| Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
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| One hundred men were drowned in that dark watery grave
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| When that good ship went down only 44 were saved
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| Was the last day of october we saved the 44
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| From that cold icy waters of that cold iceland shore
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| Tell me: what were their names?
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| Tell me: what were their names?
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| Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
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| What were their names?
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| Tell me: what were their names?
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| Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
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| It was there in the dark of that uncertain night
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| That we watched for the u-boats and waited for a fight
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| Then a whine and a rock, and the great explosion roared
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| And they laid the Reuben James on that cold ocean floor
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| Tell me: what were their names?
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| Tell me: what were their names?
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| Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
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| What were their names?
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| Tell me: what were their names?
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| Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
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| Now tonight there are lights in our country so bright
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| In the farms and in the cities they’re telling of the fight
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| And now our mighty battleships will steam the bounding main
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| And remember the name of that good Reuben James
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| Tell me: what were their names?
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| Tell me: what were their names?
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| Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
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| What were their names?
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| Tell me: what were their names?
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| Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James? |