| Well, you got to walk that lonesome valley
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| You got to walk it by yourselves
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| Nobody else can walk it for you
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| You got to walk it by yourselves
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| Now mother walked that lonesome valley
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| She had to walk it by herself
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| Cause nobody else could walk it for her
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| She had to walk it by herself
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| Now father walked that lonesome valley
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| He had to walk it by himself
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| Nobody else could walk it for him
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| He had to walk it by himself
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| Now John, they say, he was a Baptist
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| While others say, he was a Jew
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| But the holy bible plainly tells you
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| Oh, that he was a preacher too
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| Yeah, you got to walk that lonesome valley
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| You got to walk it by yourselves
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| Ain’t nobody else gonna go there for you
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| You got to go there by yourselves
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| Yeah, we got to walk that lonesome valley
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| We got to walk it by ourselves (by ourselves)
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| Cause nobody else (nobody else) can walk it for us
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| We got to walk it by ourselves
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| Yeah, we got to walk (we got to walk)
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| That lonesome valley (that lonesome valley)
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| We got to walk (we got to walk) it by ourselves (by ourselves)
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| Lord, nobody else (nobody else) can walk it for us
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| (Can walk it for you)
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| We got to walk (we got to walk) it by ourselves
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| Yeah, we got to walk (we got to walk) it by ourselves |