Walk Tall Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[A]Walk tall, walk [D]tall, walk straight
and look the [A]world right in the [D]eye
That's [G]what my mama told me
when [D]I was about to be high
She [G]said, son, be a proud man
and [D]hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk tall,
and look the [A]world right in the [D]eye
All through the years that I grew up,
Ma [A]taught these things [D]to me
But [G]I was young and foolish then
and [D]much too blind to see
[G]I ignored the things she said
as [D]if I'd never heard
Now I see and understand
the wis[A]dom of her [D]words
Walk taunt, walk straight
and look the [A]world right in the [D]eye
That's [G]what my mama told me
when [D]I was about to be high
She [G]said, son, be a proud man
and [D]hold your head up high
Walked on to walk straight
and looked the [A]world right in the [D]eye
I started going places
where the [A]youngsters shouldn't [D]go
I [G]got to know the kind of girls
[D]it's better not to know
I [G]fell in with a bad crowd
and [D]laughed and drank with them
Through the laughter mama's words
would [A]echo now and [D]then
Walk tall, walk straight
and look the [A]world right in the [D]eye
That's [G]what my mama told me
when [D]I was about to be high
She [G]said, son, be a proud man
and [D]hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk straight
and look the [A]world right in the [D]eye
[Bb]I go[Eb]t in trouble with the law
and [Bb]I'm in prison [Eb]now
Through [Ab]these prison bars
I see things [Eb]so much different now
[Ab]I have one year left to serve
and [Eb]when my time is done
I'll walk tall and straight
and make Ma [Bb]proud to call me [Eb]son
Walk tall, walk straight
and look the [Bb]world right in the [Eb]eye
That's [Ab]what my mama told me
when [Eb]I was about three high
She [Ab]said, son, be a proud man
and [Eb]hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk straight
and look the [Bb]world right in the [Eb]eye
Walk tall, walk straight
and look the [Bb]world right in the [Eb]eye
Walk [Bb]tall[Eb]
Oh boy, thank you very much.
This next song, ladies and gentlemen,
is a song that I just came to know
a number of months ago.
I was at a function
and a lady called Mary
Darcy got up and sang this song,
and when she had finished it,
I said to her, Mary, that's just beautiful,
and she told me the story
that her husband, Des,
had written it for her.
He had a terminal illness
and she came in one night
after doing a show
and he was there and he said,
Mary, he says,
I don't know if I'm going
to make our anniversary.
So I wrote you this song.