The Reverend Mr. Black Lyrics - Johnny Cash

He rode easy in the saddle 

He was tall and lean and at first you'd a thought nothing 

But a streak of mean could make a man look so down right strong 

But one look in his eyes and you knowed you was wrong 

He was a mountain of a man 

And I want you to know 

He could preach hot hell or freezin' snow 

He carried a Bible in a canvas sack 

And folks just called him 

The Reverend Mr. Black, he was poor as a beggar 

But he rode like a king 

Sometimes in the evening, I'd hear him sing 

I gotta walk that lonesome valley, I got to walk it by myself 

Oh, nobody else can walk it for me, I got to walk it by myself 

You got to walk that lonesome valley, you got to walk it by yourself 

Oh, nobody else can walk it for you, you got to walk it by yourself 

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If ever I could have thought this man in black was soft 

And had any yellow up his back 

I gave that notion up the day a lumberjack came in 

And it wasn't to pray 

Yeah, he kicked open the meeting house door 

And he cussed everybody up and down the floor 

Then, when things got quiet in the place 

He walked up and cusses in the preacher's face 

He hit that Reverend like a kick of a mule 

And to my way of thinkin' it took a real fool 

To turn the other face to that lumber jack 

But that's what he did, The Reverend Mr. Black 

He stood like a rock, a man among men 

And he let that lumberjack hit him again 

And then with a voice as quiet as could be 

He cut him down like a big oak tree when he said 

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I gotta walk that lonesome valley, I got to walk it by myself 

Oh, nobody else can walk it for me, I got to walk it by myself 

You got to walk that lonesome valley, you got to walk it by yourself 

Oh, nobody else can walk it for you, you got to walk it by yourself 

It's been many years since we had to part 

And I guess I learned his ways by heart 

I can still hear his sermon's ring 

Down in the valley where he used to sing 

I followed him, yes, sir and I don't regret it 

And I hope I will always be a credit to his memory 

'Cause I want you to understand 

The Reverend Mr. Black was my old man 

I gotta walk that lonesome valley, I got to walk it by myself 

Oh, nobody else can walk it for me, I got to walk it by myself 

You got to walk that lonesome valley, you got to walk it by yourself 

Oh, nobody else can walk it for you, you got to walk it by yourself