| Have you heard of the ship called The Good Reuben James?
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| Run by hard fighting men both of honor and of 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 at the bottom of the sea
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| Oh, 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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| Oh, 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?
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| One hundred men went down to their dark and watery graves
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| When that good ship went down, only forty-four were saved
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| 'Twas the last day of October, they saved forty-four from the dark
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| Icy water of that cold Iceland shore
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| Oh, 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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| Oh, 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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| They watched for the U-boats and they waited for a fight
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| Then a whine and a rock and a great explosion’s roar
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| They lay the Reuben James on that cold ocean floor
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| Oh, 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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| Oh, 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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| Many years have passed since those brave men are gone
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| Those cold, icy waters, they’re still and they’re calm
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| Many years have passed and still I wonder
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| Why the worst of men must fight and the best of men must die
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| Oh, 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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| Oh, 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? |