Lonesome Valley Chords by Woody Guthrie

[E] You've gotta walk that lonesome path. _
[B] You've gotta [Gb] _ [B] walk it [E] by yourself. _
[A] There's nobody here to [E] walk it for _ you.
You've [B] gotta walk it by [E] yourself.
_ _ _ You've gotta sleep in a lonesome graveyard.
_ [B] You've gotta sleep there [E] by yourself.
_ [A] Nobody here can [E] sleep there for you.
_ [B] You've gotta sleep [Gb] there [E] by yourself. _ _ _ _ _
There's a road that'll take you to glory. _
[B] Through a valley not [E] far away. _ _
_ [A] Nobody here can [E] go there for you.
_ [B] They can only [E] point the way.
But you've gotta walk that lonesome path.
_ [B] You've gotta walk it by [E] yourself.
There ain't [A] nobody [E] walking for you.
You've [B] gotta walk it [E] by yourself. _
Some people says that John was a Baptist. _
[B] Some people says he [E] was a Jew. _
[A] Oh, the Holy _ [E] Bible tells us that he [B] was a [E] preacher too. _ _
_ You've gotta walk this.
You've gotta walk that lonesome valley.
_ [B] You've gotta walk it by [E] yourself.
There's nobody [A] _ here [Em] can walk it [E] for you.
You've gotta [B] walk that lonesome valley [E] by [B] yourself.
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_ _ _ _ [B] _ [Em] _ [E] _ [Em] _
[E] Then there's lots of railroad [B] blueses, Alan.
I [Gbm] guess you [E]
know the [Em] kind of blues that come from the [C] boys
that ride the rods and walk the [E] ties.
Knockin' off them railroad ties.
Have you done a lot of that knocking off railroad ties, Woody?
How many miles [Bb] have you walked?
There's about three ties that I haven't hit.
I'm gonna flip [Em] them off this summer.
How do you walk on a [G] railroad bed?
[E] I hit every other tie.
But [Bb] a lot of times they're not laid even.
Sometimes I [Ab] have to get two at a time for a while
and then hit one a [G] couple of times in order to get them straightened out.
Some of them are [E] closer together than others.
And a lot of boys get their foot [Bb] caught in between [E] these ties.
There's been a lot of them [A] getting [B] over that way.
Did you ever [N] actually know of anybody to be in that way?
Yeah, one of the best friends that I ever had lived right next door to me, Alan,
about two doors up the street.
His name was Miles Reynolds in Okemah, Oklahoma.
When he was about 17 years old, he had to take the freight train in it. _
And he fell down in between them and got run over. _ _
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