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Guitar: Walk Tall

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Channel: threelegsoman · 2009 · Music

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When I got up this morning, for no apparent reason I found myself humming this tune and thinking about Val Doonican who had a hit version with it in the 1960s. So with the aid of the internet, I looked it up and have recorded it even though it is a song I have never performed before.

Walk Tall
Val Doonican 
No capo 
 
D    - D7
Walk Tall ! 
 G                                                            D                             G/G7     
Walk tall, walk straight and look the world right in the eye!”
            C                                                   G
That’s what my mama told me, when I was about knee-high.
                   C                                           G
She said, “Son, be a proud man, and hold your head up high.
                                                                D                            G
Walk tall, walk straight and look the world right in the eye!”
 
All through the years that I grew up ma told 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.

I started going 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.
 
Walk tall, walk straight and look the world right in the eye!
That’s what my mama 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!”

E/E7
   A                                                    E                    A     - A7
I got in trouble with the law and I’m in prison now,
D                                                                   A
Through these prison bars I see things so much different now
D                                                          A
I’ve got one year left to serve and when my time is done,
                                                                  E                           A
I’ll walk tall and straight to make Ma proud to call me son.

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