Chords:
{t: Walk Tall}
{artist:Val Doonican}
{key: G}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL58-Sh94ms Capo on 1
{c: thanks to Chris Hughes}
[D]
Walk [G] tall, walk straight and look the [D] world right in the [G] eye! [G7]
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!
{c: }
All [G] through the years that I grew up ma [D] told these things to [G] me, [G7]
But [G] I was young and foolish then and [G] much too blind to see.
[C] I ignored the things she said as [G] if I’d never heard,
Now I see and understand the [D] wisdom of her [G] words.
{c: }
Walk [G] tall, walk straight and look the [D] world right in the [G] eye! [G7]
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!
{c: }
I [G] started going places where the [D] youngsters shouldn’t [G] go, [G7]
I [C] got to know the kind of girls it’s [G] better not to know.
I [C] fell in with a bad crowd and [G] laughed and drank with them,
through the laughter Mama’s words would [D] echo now and [G] then.
{c: }
Walk [G] tall, walk straight and look the [D] world right in the [G] eye! [G7]
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! [E7]
{c: Key change}
I [A] got in trouble with the law and [E7] I'm in prison [A] now [A7]
[D] Through these prison bars I see things [A] so much different now
I've [D] got one more year to serve and [A] when my time is done
I'll walk tall and straight and make Ma [D] proud to call me [A] son
{c: }
Walk [A] tall, walk straight and look the [E7] world right in the [A] eye! [A7]
That's [D] what my mama told me, when [A] I was about knee-high.
She [D] said, Son, be a proud man, and [A] hold your head up high.
Walk tall, walk straight and look the [E7] world right in the [A] eye!
Walk tall, walk straight and look the [E7] world right in the [A] eye!
