Walk tall, walk straight, and look the world right in the eye
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That's what my momma told me when I was about knee high
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Said "Son now be a proud man, and hold your head up high
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Walk tall, walk straight, and look the world right in the eye,"
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When I was young boy ...
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But I was young and foolish then, and much too blind to see
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I ignored the things she said as if I never heard
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Now I see and understand the meaning of her words
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Walk tall, walk straight, and look the world right in the eye
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That's what my momma told me when I was about knee high
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Said "Son now be a proud man, and hold your head up high
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Walk tall, walk straight, and look the world right in the eye,"
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Started going to places, where youngsters shouldn't go
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Got to know the kind of girls it's better not to know
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Fell in with a bad crowd and laughed and drank with them
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And through the laughter mama's words would echo now and then '
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Walk tall, walk straight, and look the world right in the eye
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It's what my momma told me when I was about knee high
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Said "Son now be a proud man, and hold your head up high
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Walk tall, walk straight, and look the world right in the eye,"
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Got in trouble with the law, and I'm in prison now
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Through these prison bars I see things so much different now
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I got one year left to serve, and when my time is done
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I'll walk tall and I'll walk straight, and mama'll be proud to call me son.
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Walk tall, walk straight, and look the world right in the eye
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That's what my momma told me when I was about knee high
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Said "Son now be a proud man, and hold your head up high
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Walk tall, walk straight, and look the world right in the eye,"
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Walk tall, walk tall
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Walk Tall
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