Tonart: C major
Verse 1
C
Walk tall, walk straight,
G
C
and look the world right in the eye
F
That's what my momma told me
C
when I was about knee high
F
Said "Son now be a proud man,
C
and hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk straight,
G
C
and look the world right in the eye,"
Verse 2
C
G
C
When I was young boy ...
F
But I was young and foolish then,
C
and much too blind to see
F
I ignored the things she said
Now I see and understand
G
C
the meaning of her words
Verse 3
C
Walk tall, walk straight,
G
C
and look the world right in the eye
F
That's what my momma told me
C
when I was about knee high
F
Said "Son now be a proud man,
C
and hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk straight,
G
C
and look the world right in the eye,"
Verse 4
C
Started going to places,
G
C
where youngsters shouldn't go
F
Got to know the kind of girls
C
it's better not to know
F
Fell in with a bad crowd and
C
laughed and drank with them
And through the laughter mama's words
G
C
would echo now and then '
Verse 5
Walk tall, walk straight,
G
C
and look the world right in the eye
F
It's what my momma told me
C
when I was about knee high
F
Said "Son now be a proud man,
C
and hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk straight,
G
C
and look the world right in the eye,"
Interlude 1
C
D
Verse 6
D
Got in trouble with the law,
A
D
and I'm in prison now
G
Through these prison bars I see
D
things so much different now
G
D
I got one year left to serve,
and when my time is done
I'll walk tall and I'll walk straight,
A
and mama'll be proud to call me son.
D
Verse 7
Walk tall, walk straight,
A
D
and look the world right in the eye
G
That's what my momma told me
D
when I was about knee high
G
Said "Son now be a proud man,
D
and hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk straight,
A
D
and look the world right in the eye,"
Verse 8
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