Walk Tall

WALK TALL

(Donald Wayne)

Walk tall...

CHORUS :

Walk tall ( Walk tall ) ... Walk straight ( Walk straight )

And look the world right in the eye

That's what my Mamma told me when I was about knee-high

She said ' Son , be a proud man and hold your head up high '

Walk tall ( Walk tall ) ... Walk straight ( Walk straight )

And look the world right in the eye

All through the years that I grew up Ma taught these things to me

But I was young and foolish then , and much too blind to see

I ignored the things she said as if I'd never heard

Now I see and understand the wisdom of her words

CHORUS

I started going places where the youngsters shouldn't go

I got to know the kind of girls it's better not to know

I fell in with a bad crowd , and laughed and drank with them

Through the laughter Mamma's words would echo now and then

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I got in trouble with the law , and I'm in prison now

Through these prison bars I see things so much different now

I've got one year left to serve , and when my time is done

I'll walk tall and straight , and make Ma proud to call me son

CHORUS ( Last Line Twice )

Walk tall ( Walk tall ) ...

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Lyrics submitted by Stephen.