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Bar Of Judgement/Lonesome Valley/Walk That Lonesome Valley/ John The Baptist
See also: John The Baptist
See also: Lonesome Valley
Traditional Old-Time Gospel;
ARTIST: Honey in the Rock: The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs Page 26; Olivia Solomon, Jack Solomon
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800s;
RECORDING INFO: Bar of Judgement/ Lonesome Valley [Me III-C 68]
Rt - Hark of All; We Shall Walk Through the Valley; John the Baptist; You Got to Stand a Test
Mf - You've Got to Go Down and Join the Union
Pb - Ballad for Bill Moore
Sandburg, Carl (ed.) / American Songbag, Harcourt, Sof (1955/1928), p486 (You Got to Cross It for Yourself)
Lomax, John A. & Alan Lomax / Folk Song USA, Signet, Sof (1966/1947), #100
Lynn, Frank (ed.) / Songs for Swinging Housemothers, Fearon, Sof (1963/1961), p327b
Sing for the Fun of It, CSS, poc (194?), p63 (You've Got to Walk that Lonesome Valley)
Allen, William Francis, et.al (eds.) / Slave Songs of the United States, Dover, Sof (1995/1867), # 7 [1860s]
Blood, Peter; and Annie Patterson (eds.) / Rise Up Singing, Sing Out, Sof (1992/1989), p 44
Oregon 4-H Sings, CSS OSC Extension, Sof (1946ca), p31
Fox, Lillian M. / Folk Songs of the United States, Calif. State Series, Sof (1951), p 6
Work, John W. / American Negro Songs and Spirituals, Dover, Bk (1998/1940), p108a (I Must Walk My Lonesome Valley)
Herder, Ronald (ed.) / 500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics, Dover dn500/500, Sof (1998), p202
Baez, Joan. Very Early Joan, Vanguard VSD 79446/7, LP (1982), trk# B.05 [1961-63]
Ball, E. C. (Estil C.). Sounds of the South, Atlantic 7-82496-2, CD( (1993), trk# 3.22 [1959/07ca]
Brady, Pete; and the Blazers. Murder Ballads, ABC Paramount ABC 310, LP (196?), trk# B.06 (Lonesome River)
Carter Family. Carter Family in Texas. Vol. 7, Old Homestead OHCS 139, LP (1984), trk# 11
Carter Family. Country & Western Classics, Time-Life Records TLCW-06, LP (1982), trk# 2.03 [1935/05/08]
Carter, June. Wildwood Flower, Dualtone 80302, CD (2003), trk# 9b
Darling, Erik. True Religion, Vanguard VRS 9099, LP (1961), trk# 13
Dyer-Bennet, Richard. Richard Dyer-Bennet 1, Dyer-Bennet 1000, LP (1955), trk# B.09
Eller, Lawrence;, Vaughn Eller, and Russ Brown. Art of Field Recording, Vol. 1, Dust to Digital DTD 08, CD( (2007), trk# 2.09 [1978/05/08]
Hinton, Sam. Family Tree of Folk Songs, Decca DL 8418, LP (1956), trk# B.04
Holt, Will. World of Will Holt, Coral CRL 57114, LP (1957), trk# A.04
Jackson, O. B.. Hollerin', Rounder 0071, CD (1995/1976), trk# 14a
Lea, Terrea. Terrea Lea and Her Singing Guitar, ABC Paramount ABC 161, LP (196?), trk# B.02
Marshall, Charley. Charley Marshall Sings Folk, Ikon IER 109, LP (1956?), trk# B.01
Martin, Benny. Fiddler Magazine, Fiddler Mag., Ser, 4/2, p37(1997) [1965] (You've Got to Walk that Lonesome Valley)
McFalls, Fred; and Ben Bryson. Comin' Round the Mountain, Voyager VLRP 302, LP (1968), trk# 6 (You've Got to Walk that Lonesome Valley)
Monroe Brothers. Anthology of Country Music, Vol 1. Early Country Harmony 1930's, ACM ACM-01, LP (197?), trk# 13 [1936/06/21?] (You've Got to Walk that Lonesome Valley)
Red Rose Girls. Red Rose Girls, Empty Records MTR 407, CD (2005), trk# 15
Rinehart, Cowboy Slim (Nolan). Border Radio, County 550, LP (1990), trk# 27 [1941]
Smith, Winifred. Ethnic Folk Songs from the South, Tennessee Squire Assoc 630D-2211, LP (196?), trk# 10 (You've Got to Cross that Lonesome Valley)
Swendel, Johnny. Johnny Swendel's First Folk Almanac, Country International 727, LP (1974), trk# A.05 (You've Got to Walk that Lonesome Valley)
Taussig, Harry. Taussig, Harry / Folk Style Autoharp, Oak, Sof (1967), p 37
West, Don. Jackson, George P.(ed.) / Spiritual Folk Songs of Early America, Dover, Sof (1964/1937), p215/#214 [1933/02/11] (That Lonesome Valley)
Williamson, George & Mary. Our Mountain Heritage, Old Homestead OHS 80010, LP (198?), trk# A.07
Yarbrough, Glenn. Come and Sit by My Side, Tradition TLP 1019, LP (196?), trk# B.07
OTHER NAMES: "Lonesome Valley"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Ballad Index;
NOTES: "Bar Of Judgement" better known as "Lonesome Valley" that is a traditional spiritual that comes from Honey in the Rock: The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs Page 48 by Olivia Solomon and Jack Solomon.
It's one of the oldest spirituals and has become popular in bluegrass/country circles.
"Nummer Me One" a spiritual from Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands has the "I'm going to the Judgement Bar" as a tag. It's not the same song but it shows that the African-Americans adapted the term.
BALLAD INDEX Lonesome Valley
DESCRIPTION: "You've got to walk that lonesome valley, you've got to walk it by yourself; There's no one here can go there with you [or: walk it for you]; You've got to go there by yourself." Various floating verses about the difficult path to heaven
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (recording, Jenkins Family)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Randolph 622, "Some Folks Say John Was a Baptist" (1 fragmentary text, 1 tune -- a floating verse which, based on the tune, probably belongs here)
Warner 162, "Lonesome Valley" (1 text, 1 tune, sung and notated in three parts)
Sandburg, p. 486, "You Got To Cross It Foh Yohself" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSUSA 100, "Lonesome Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 762, "Lonesome Valley" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 354, "Lonesome Valley" (1 text)
DT, LONEVALY
Roud #7098
RECORDINGS:
Carolina Ramblers String Band, "That Lonesome Valley" (Perfect 12818/Melotone 12428, 1932)
Carter Family, "Lonesome Valley" (Victor 23541, 1931; Bluebird B-6117/Montgomery Ward M-4735, 1935) (OKeh 03112, 1935; on CGospel1)
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, "Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky" (Columbia 21334, 1954)
Elzie Floyd & Leo Boswell, "Lonesome Valley" (Columbia 15167-D, 1927)
Jenkins Family, "That Lonesome Valley" (OKeh 40377, 1925)
Heavenly Gospel Singers, "Walk This Lonesome Valley" (Bluebird B-6984, 1937)
J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers, "Walk That Lonesome Valley" (Bluebird B-6596/Montgomery Ward M-7007, 1936)
Curt Mann, "Lonesome Valley" (on USWarnerColl01)
[Lester] McFarland & [Robert] Gardner, "The Lonesome Valley" (Vocalion 5127, 1927)
Blind Willie McTell, "I Got to Cross the River of Jordan" (LoC, 1940, two versions; one version is on Babylon)
David Miller, "That Lonesome Valley" (Gennett 6175, 1927)
Monroe Brothers, "You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley" (Bluebird B-6477, 1936)
Pete Seeger, "You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley" (on BroonzySeeger1); "Lonesome Valley" (on PeteSeeger47)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Hard Trials" (floating verses)
SAME TUNE:
Dixie Reelers, "Lonesome Valley - Part 2" (Bluebird B-6713, 1936)
THE BAR OF JUDGEMENT- The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs Page 26;
Oh, I got to stand at the bar of judgement,
Oh, I got to stand there by myself.
Oh, there's no one else, to stand there for me,
I got to stand there for myself.
My mother's got to stand at the bar of judgement,
My mother's got to stand there by herself.
Oh, there's no one else, to stand there for her,
My Mother's got to stand there for herself.
My father's got to stand at the bar of judgement,
My father's got to stand there by himself.
Oh, there's no one else, to stand there for him,
My father's got to stand there for herself.
Everybody's got to stand at the bar of judgement,
Everybody's got to stand there for themselves.
Oh, there's no one else, to stand there for them,
Everybody's got to stand there for themselves.
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