Walk Tall chords by Daniel O'Donnell

SimplifiedA · D · G · Bb · Eb …

GuitarPianoUkulele

Verse 1
A 
D 
Walk tall, walk tall, walk straight
A 
D 
and look the world right in the eye
G 
That's what my mama told me
D 
when I was about to be high
G 
She said, son, be a proud man
D 
and hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk tall,
A 
D 
and look the world right in the eye
All through the years that I grew up,
A 
D 
Ma taught these things to me
G 
But I was young and foolish then
D 
and much too blind to see
G 
I ignored the things she said
D 
as if I'd never heard
Now I see and understand
A 
D 
the wisdom of her words
Walk taunt, walk straight
A 
D 
and look the world right in the eye
G 
That's what my mama told me
D 
when I was about to be high
G 
She said, son, be a proud man
D 
and hold your head up high
Walked on to walk straight
A 
D 
and looked the world right in the eye
I started going places
A 
D 
where the youngsters shouldn't go
G 
I got to know the kind of girls
D 
it's better not to know
G 
I fell in with a bad crowd
D 
and laughed and drank with them
Through the laughter mama's words
A 
D 
would echo now and then
Walk tall, walk straight
A 
D 
and look the world right in the eye
G 
That's what my mama told me
D 
when I was about to be high
G 
She said, son, 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
Bb 
Eb 
I   got in trouble with the law
Bb 
Eb 
and I'm in prison now
Ab 
Through these prison bars
Eb 
I see things so much different now
Ab 
I have one year left to serve
Eb 
and when my time is done
I'll walk tall and straight
Bb 
Eb 
and make Ma proud to call me son
Walk tall, walk straight
Bb 
Eb 
and look the world right in the eye
Ab 
That's what my mama told me
Eb 
when I was about three high
Ab 
She said, son, be a proud man
Eb 
and hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk straight
Bb 
Eb 
and look the world right in the eye
Walk tall, walk straight
Bb 
Eb 
and look the world right in the eye
Bb 
Eb 
Walk tall
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.