This is a traditional hymn that was sung at an Ash Wednesday service I attended this week. I started choking up at the second verse, and couldn't help but think of lonely but stoic Ennis (especially in the last verse). My sister Cathy, who was in attendance with me, described the song as a "cowboy hymn":
Jesus walked this lonesome valley.
He had to walk it by Himself;
O, nobody else could walk it for Him,
He had to walk it by Himself.
We must walk this lonesome valley,
We have to walk it by ourselves;
O, nobody else can walk it for us,
We have to walk it by ourselves.
You must go and stand your trial,
You have to stand it by yourself,
O, nobody else can stand it for you,
You have to stand it by yourself.