Walk Tall - Faron Young
Walk tall
Walk straight and look the world right in the eye
That's what my mama told me when
I was about knee high
She said son be a proud man
And hold your head up high
Walk tall 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
Tthe wisdom of her words
Walk tall walk straight and look
The world right in the eye
That's what my mama told me
When I was about knee high
She said son be a proud man
And hold your head up high
Walk tall walk straight and look
The world right in the eye
I started goin' 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 mama's words
Would echo now and then
Walk tall walk straight and look
The world right in the eye
That's what my mama told me when
I was about knee high
She said son be a proud man
And hold your head up high
Walk tall walk straight and look
The world right in the eye
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
Walk tall walk straight and look
The world right in the eye
That's what my mama told me when
I was about knee high
She said son be a proud man
And hold your head up high
Walk tall walk straight and look
The world right in the eye
Walk tall walk straight and look
The world right in the eye
Walk tall walk straight and look
The world right in the eye
