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    1. Walk That Lonesome Valley

    From the recording Further Down the Line (2017)

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    You got to walk that lonesome valley
    You got to walk it by yourself
    Nobody else can walk it for you
    You got to walk that valley by yourself

    Now there was a slave girl, Isabella Baumfree
    Sold three times in her youth
    She took her child and walked to freedom
    She took the name Soujourner Truth

    She took a white man to court and won
    She said I'll do anything a man can do
    And I'll eat as much as any man, if I can get it
    If black men'll vote, why can't I vote too?

    She had to walk that lonesome valley
    She had to walk it by herself
    Nobody else could walk it for her
    She had to walk that valley by herself

    Now there was a priest named Father Berrigan
    Tryin' to make sense of what Jesus said
    He heard their country was burning children
    He and his friends burned draft records instead

    He said now, what if you really meant it?
    Loved your fellowman like you love your Lord?
    In Pennsylvania they destroyed warheads
    Making plowshares out of swords

    Dan Berrigan walked that lonesome valley
    He had to walk it by himself
    Nobody else could walk it for him
    He had to walk that valley by himself

    Now there was a soldier named Bradley Manning
    Without a friend, so far from home
    In a body that never fit right
    Knowing things no one should know

    Said what would you do with this information?
    Wouldn't it help the world if it were known?
    Got eleven months in Quantico, for starters
    With the lights on, naked and alone

    Chelsea Manning had to walk that lonesome valley
    She had to walk it by herself
    Nobody else could walk it for her
    She had to walk that valley by herself

    If you got to walk that lonesome valley
    You got to walk it by yourself
    Nobody else can walk it for you
    But you got to walk it by yourself

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