3. Who "rode easy in the saddle" and "was tall and lean"? At first glance, you might think "nothing but a streak of mean could make a man look so down right strong, but one look in his eyes and you knowed you was wrong."
From Quiz Kingston Trio Songs
Answer:
The Reverend Mr. Black
This song tells the story of the Reverend Mr. Black, who "carried a Bible in a canvas sack" and was "poor as a beggar" but "rode like a king." He'd go about singing this song:
"I gotta walk that lonesome valley.
I got to walk it by myself.
Oh nobody else can walk it for me.
I got to walk it by myself."
One day, a lumberjack comes into church where the Reverend Mr. Black is preaching and cusses right in his face. Then he punches the Reverend. Mr. Black, however, doesn't fight back. Instead, he stands like a rock, lets the man hit him again, and then says the words that are the chorus of this song. In the end of the song, the narrator reveals that the man he is singing about, the Reverend Mr. Black, was his father, and he's learned his pacifist ways by heart, but now that his father is dead, he has to walk that lonesome valley by himself.