You've got to walk that lonesome valley

Well you gotta go by yourself

Well there ain't nobody else gonna go there for you

You gotta go there by yourself



Now mother walked that lonesome valley

Now mother walked, she walked it by herself

Well there ain't nobody else could ever walk it for her

She had to walk it, she had to walk it by herself



You've got to walk that lonesome valley

Well you gotta go by yourself

Well there ain't nobody else gonna go there for you

You gotta go there by yourself



Now father walked that lonesome valley

Now father walked it, he walked it by himself

Nobody else could walk it for him

Well he had to walk it, he had to walk it by himself



You've got to walk that lonesome valley

Well you gotta go by yourself

Well there ain't nobody else gonna go there for you

You gotta go there by yourself



Now John was a baptist

He was some folk say he was a Jew

He wrote that holy holy bible

The bible tells you, it plainly tells you

That he was, that he was a preacher too



You've got to walk that lonesome valley

Well you gotta go by yourself

Well there ain't nobody else gonna go there for you

You gotta go there by yourself



You've got to walk that lonesome valley

Well you gotta go by yourself

Well there ain't nobody else gonna go there for you

You gotta go there by yourself