Walk Tall chords by The Popes

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Verse 1
C 
Walk tall, walk straight,
G 
C 
and look the world right in the eye
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That's what my momma told me
C 
when I  was about knee high
F 
Said "Son now be a proud man,
C 
and hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk straight,
G 
C 
and look the world right in the eye,"

Verse 2
C 
G 
C 
When I was young boy ...
F 
But I  was young and foolish then,
C 
and much too blind to see
F 
I ignored the things she said
C 
as if I never heard
Now I see and understand
G 
C 
the meaning of her words

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Verse 3

Walk tall, walk straight,

and look the world right in the eye

That's what my momma told me

when I was about knee high

Said "Son now be a proud man,

and hold your head up high

Walk tall, walk straight,

and look the world right in the eye,"

Verse 4
C 
Started going to places,
G 
C 
where youngsters shouldn't go
F 
Got to know the kind of girls
C 
it's better not to know
F 
Fell in with a bad crowd and
C 
laughed and drank with them
And through the laughter mama's words
G 
C 
would echo now and then '

Verse 5
Walk tall, walk straight,
G 
C 
and look the world right in the eye
F 
It's what my momma told me
C 
when I  was about knee high
F 
Said "Son now be a proud man,
C 
and hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk straight,
G 
C 
and look the world right in the eye,"

Interlude 1

Verse 6
D 
Got in trouble with the law,
A 
D 
and  I'm in prison now
G 
Through these prison bars I see
D 
things so much different now
G 
D 
I got one year left to serve,
and when my time is done
I'll walk tall and I'll walk straight,
A 
and mama'll be proud to call me son.
D 

Verse 7
Walk tall, walk straight,
A 
D 
and look the world right in the eye
G 
That's what my momma told me
D 
when I  was about knee high
G 
Said "Son now 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,"