[G]Walk tall, walk straight and look the [D]world right in the [G7]eye
That's [C]what my mama told
me when [G]I was about knee high
She [C]said, son, be a proud man and [G]hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk straight
and look the [D]world right in the[G] eye
All[G] through the years that I grew up ma [D]told
these things to [G7]me
But [C]I was young and foolish then and [G]much too blind to see
I [C]ignored the things she
said as [G]if I'd never heard
Now I see and understant the [D]wisdom of her [G]words
Walk
[G]tall, walk straight and look the [D]world right in the[G7] eye
That's [C]what my mama told me when [G]I was about knee
high
She [C]said, son, be a proud man and [G]hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk straight and look the [D]world right
in the [G]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
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
