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Johnny Cash - The Reverend Mr. Black (Chord)
Submitter: PierreLeveillee (0) on 6/4/14
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THE REVEREND MR. BLACK
Recitation:
He rode easy in the saddle he was tall and lean
And at first you'd a-thought nothing but a streak of mean 
Could make a man look so down right strong 
But one look in his eyes and you know you was wrong  
C                                F
He was a mountain of a man and I want you to know 
   C                        G7       C
He could preach hot hell in freezing snow 
                        F
He carried a Bible in a canvas sack 
    C                         G7           C
And folks just called him The Reverend Mr. Black 
                               F
He was poor as a beggar but he rode like a king 
    C                        G7       C
Sometimes in the evening I'd hear him sing 
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I gotta walk that lonesome valley I gotta to walk it by myself 
          F                    C                   G7   C
Oh nobody else can walk it for me I got to walk it by myself 
Recitation:
If ever I could have thought this man in black  
Was soft and had any yellow up his back  
I gave that notion up the day 
A lumberjack came in and it wasn't to pray 
Yeah he kicked open the meeting house door 
And he cussed everybody up and down the floor 
Then when things got quiet in the place 
 
He walked up and cusses in the preacher's face 
He hit that Reverend like a kick of a mule 
And to my way of thinking it took a pure fool 
To turn the other cheek to that lumber jack
 
But that's what he did  The Reverend Mr. Black 
He stood like a rock a man among men 
And he let that lumberjack hit him again
And then with a voice as quiet as could be 
He cut him down like a big oak tree when he said 
C                   F        C                   G7         C
You gotta walk that lonesome valley you gotta to walk it by yourself 
          F                    C                    G7        C
Oh nobody else can walk it for you  you got to walk it by yourself
Recitation:
It's been many years since we had to part 
And I guess I learned his ways by heart 
I can still hear his sermon's ring 
Down in the valley where he used to sing 
 
I followed him  yes sir  and I don't regret it 
And I hope I will always be a credit to his memory 
Cause I want you to understand 
The Reverend Mr. Black was my old man 
C                 F        C                 G7         C
I gotta walk that lonesome valley I gotta to walk it by myself 
          F                    C                   G7   C
Oh nobody else can walk it for me I got to walk it by myself
 
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