The Reverend Mr Black chords by Johnny Cash

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

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


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


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


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


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


🎸 Chorus:
          D         G        D
You gotta walk that lonesome valley
          A              D    D7
You gotta walk it by yourself
                   G                D
There ain't nobody here can walk it for you
          D       A      D    G    D
You gotta walk it by yourself


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


🎸 Chorus:
          D         G        D
You gotta walk that lonesome valley
          A              D    D7
You gotta walk it by yourself
                   G                D
There ain't nobody here can walk it for you
          D       A      D    G    D
You gotta walk it by yourself
          D         G        D
You gotta walk that lonesome valley
          A              D    D7
You gotta walk it by yourself
                   G                D
There ain't nobody here can walk it for you
          D       A      D    G    D
You gotta walk it by yourself