The Reverend Mr Black chords by Johnny Cash

Chords with lyrics

🎸 Intro:

N.C.
He rode easy in the saddle, he was tall and lean
N.C.
And at first you'd a thought nothing but a streak of mean
N.C.
Could make a man look so down right strong
N.C.
But one look in his eyes and you knowed you was wrong



🎸 Verse 1:
     C majorC
He was a mountain of a man and I want you to know
     G+G         C majorC
He could preach hot hell or freezin' snow
FF            C majorC
He carried a Bible in a canvas sack
  G+G            C majorC
And everybody called him The Reverend Mr. Black
    FF            C majorC
He was poor as a beggar but he rode like a king
G+G                C majorC
Sometimes in the evening
I can hear him sing

🎸 Chorus:
    C majorC     FF    C majorC
I gotta walk that lonesome valley
    G+G      C majorC
I gotta walk it by myself
          FF        C majorC
There ain't nobody here can walk it for me
    C majorC    G+G  C majorC  FF  C majorC
I gotta walk it by myself


🎸 Verse 2:
  C majorC
If ever I could have thought this man in black
  G+G        C majorC
Was soft and had any yellow up his back
 FF            C majorC
I gave that notion up the very day
 G+G             C majorC
A augmentedA lumberjack came in and it wasn't to pray

🎸 Verse 3:
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He kicked open the meeting house door
    G+G            C majorC
And he cussed everybody up and down the floor
   FF             C majorC
Then, when things got quiet all over the place
  G+G              C majorC
He walked up and cusses in the preacher's face


🎸 Verse 4:
  D MajorD
He hit that reverend like a kick of a mule
    A augmentedA           D MajorD
And to my way of thinkin' it took a real fool
  G+G              D MajorD
To turn the other cheek to that lumberjack
      A augmentedA             D MajorD
But that's what he did
The Reverend Mr. Black


🎸 Verse 5:
  D MajorD
He stood like a rock, a man among men
      A augmentedA          D MajorD
And then he let that lumberjack hit him again
  G+G          D MajorD
And then with a voice as kind as could be
A augmentedA           D MajorD           D MajorD
He cut him down like a big oak tree, when he said


🎸 Chorus:
     D MajorD     G+G    D MajorD
You gotta walk that lonesome valley
     A augmentedA       D MajorD  D7D7
You gotta walk it by yourself
          G+G        D MajorD
There ain't nobody here can walk it for you
     D MajorD    A augmentedA   D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD
You gotta walk it by yourself


🎸 Verse 6:
      D MajorD
Well, it's been many years since we had to part
   A augmentedA            D MajorD
And I guess I learned all his ways by heart
   G+G          D MajorD
Just I can still hear his sermon's ring
A augmentedA              D MajorD
Down in the valley where he used to sing


🎸 Chorus:
     D MajorD     G+G    D MajorD
You gotta walk that lonesome valley
     A augmentedA       D MajorD  D7D7
You gotta walk it by yourself
          G+G        D MajorD
There ain't nobody here can walk it for you
     D MajorD    A augmentedA   D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD
You gotta walk it by yourself
     D MajorD     G+G    D MajorD
You gotta walk that lonesome valley
     A augmentedA       D MajorD  D7D7
You gotta walk it by yourself
          G+G        D MajorD
There ain't nobody here can walk it for you
     D MajorD    A augmentedA   D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD
You gotta walk it by yourself