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Lonesome Valley/Walk Tha Lonesome Valley/ You've Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley/Jesus Walked this Lonesome Valley
Tradtional Old-Time, Bluegrass Gospel and Spiritual;
ARTIST: Richard Matteson; learned from an African-American source in NC circa 1995
CATEGORY: Traditional Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: 1864; First Recorded in 1925 Jenkins Family; similar version was printed in 1929.
RECORDING INFO: 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 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)
SAME TUNE: Dixie Reelers, "Lonesome Valley - Part 2" (Bluebird B-6713, 1936)
OTHER NAMES: "That Lonesome Valley" "You've Got to Walk that Lonesome Valley" "Some Folks Say John Was a Baptist" "You Got To Cross It Foh Yohself" "John the Baptist (Vernon Dalhart)" "Jesus walked this lonesome valley"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Meade
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)
NOTES: "You've Got to Walk that Lonesome Valley" or "Lonesome Valley" begins:
"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."
The song "Hard Trials" has floating verses. The song below was collected in the Sea Island (Georgia and South Carolina) and published in 1864:
The Lonesome Valley (Chorus) 1864
Go down in de lonesome valley,
Go down in de lonesome valley, my Lord.
Go down in de lonesome valley,
To meet My Jesus dere.
The version above is not same song and it's a long way from the 1920s when similar versions that we use today were first recorded by The Jenkins Family (1925). The Carter Family recorded the song twice first in 1930 and their versions went a long in popularizing the song as a country/bluegrass gospel.
LONESOME VALLEY- Richard Matteson Circa 1995
CHORUS:
You got to walk (you've got to walk) that lonesome valley (that lonesome valley)
You got to walk(you've got to walk) all by yourself (all by yourself);
Ain't nobody else (ain't nobody else) can walk it for you (can walk it for you)
You got to walk that lonesome valley all by yourself.
VERSE: Some say John, he was a Baptist
Soem say John, he was a Jew
I say John, just like the bible,
I say John, John, John, he was a preacher man too.
CHORUS:
Well, there is a road, that leads to glory,
Through a valley, so far away,
Ain't nobody else, can walk it for you,
All they can do... is point the way.
CHORUS:
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