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Lonesome Valley

You got to walk that lonesome valley
You got to walk it by yourself
Ain't nobody here can walk it for you
You got to walk it by yourself

Your mother walked that lonesome valley
She had to walk it by herself
And nobody here could walk it for her
She had to walk it by herself

You got to go down and join the Union
You got to join it by yourself
Ain't nobody here can join it for you
You got to join it by yourself

You got to go down and join the pickets
 You got to go down and join by yourself
Ain't nobody here can join it for you
You got to go down and join the pickets by yourself

You got to go down to Mississippi
 You got to go down there by yourself
Ain't nobody here will go there for you
You got to go down to Mississippi by yourself

You got to walk that lonesome valley
You got to walk it by yourself
 Ain't nobody here can walk it for you
You got to go walk it by yourself
 
Traditional arranged by Joan Baez and Mary Travers

Joan Baez and Mary Travers live at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival. 

 
Performed by John Hurt in 1965.