Testo Reverend Mr. Black - Lonnie Donegan
Testo della canzone Reverend Mr. Black (Lonnie Donegan), tratta dall'album Puttin' On the Country Style
He rode easy in the saddle
And he was tall and lean
At first you'd have thought nothin' but a big streak of mean
Could make a man look so down right strong
But one look in his eyes and you know you was wrong
He was a mountain man and I want you to know
He could preach hot hell in the freezin' snow
And he carried a bible in a little ol' canvas sack
Folks just called him the Reverend Mr. Black
He was poor as a beggar
But he rode like a king
And sometimes in the evenin' I'd hear him sing
I've gotta walk that lonesome valley
I've gotta walk it by myself
Oh nobody else can walk it for me
I've gotta walk it by myself
If ever I could have thought that that man in black
Was soft or had any yellow up his back
I'd give that notion up on the day
A lumberjack came in and it wasn't to pray
He kicked open the meetin' house door
And he cursed everybody up and down the floor
Then when things got quiet in the place
He walked up and cursed in the preacher's face
He hit that reverend just like the kick of a mule
And to my way of thinkin' why it took a pure fool
To turn another cheek to that lumberjack
But that's what he did, Reverend Mr. Black
Yes sir he stood like a rock
A man amongst men
And he let that timberjack hit him again
Then with a voice just as kind as could be
He cut him down like a big oak tree
When he said
You gotta walk that lonesome valley
You gotta walk it by yourself
Oh nobody else can walk it for you
You gotta walk it by yourself
It's been many a year since we had to part
And I guess I learned his ways right off by heart
And I can still hear his sermons ring
Down in the valley where he used to sing
I followed him, yes sir, and I don't regret it
And I hope that I'll always be a credit
To his memory
'Cause I want you to understand
The Reverend Mr. Black was my old man
And I gotta walk that lonesome valley
I gotta walk it by myself
Oh nobody else can walk it for me
I gotta walk it by myself
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Writer(s): Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Billy Wheeler
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