Lonesome Valley

Alabama

Traditional

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C                         F        C
Well you got to walk that lonesome valley
           G7         C
You got to walk it by yourself
       F                    C
Nobody else can walk it for you
                 G7    C
You got to walk  it by yourself

Verse 2

                       F        C
Now mother walked that lonesome valley
           G7         C
She had to walk it by herself
             F                      C
Cause nobody else could walk it for her
                 G7    C
She had to walk  it by herself

Verse 3

                       F        C
Now father walked that lonesome valley
          G7         C
He had to walk it by himself
       F                      C
Nobody else could walk it for him
                G7    C
He had to walk  it by himself

Verse 4

                         F C
Now John they say he was a Baptist
             G7           C
While others say he was a Jew
                   F             C
But the holy bible plainly tells you
                G7         C
Oh that he was  a preacher too

Verse 5

                          F        C
Yeah you got to walk that lonesome valley
           G7         C
You got to walk it by yourself
             F                       C
Ain't nobody else gonna go there for you
                     G7 C
You got to go  there by yourself

Verse 6

                         F        C
Yeah we got to walk that lonesome valley
          G7         C
We got to walk it by ourselves
             F                    C
Cause nobody else can walk it for us
                   G7 C
We got to walk  it by ourselves

Verse 7

                         F        C
Yeah we got to walk that lonesome valley
          G7         C
We got to walk it by ourselves
       F                    C
Nobody else can walk it for us
                   G7 C
We got to walk  it by ourselves
                        G7 C
Yeah we got to walk  it by ourselves