Faron Young – Walk Tall lyrics

Composer(s) – Don Wayne

Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye
That's what my momma 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 as I grew up mom 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

Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye
That's what my momma 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 a 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 momma's words would echo now and then

Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye
That's what my momma 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
But through these prison bars I see things so much different now
I've got one year left to serve but when my time is done
I'll walk tall and straight and make mom proud to call me son

Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye
That's what my momma 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