Reached no 3 in the UK charts in 1964

(Intro)
N.C. D
Walk tall

(Chorus)
             
Walk tall walk

              
 straight and 

             
look the world

              
 right in the 


eye
             
That's what my

              
 mama told me 

     
when I was abo

ut knee high
             
She said son b

              
e a proud man 

    
and hold your 

head up high
              
Walk tall walk

              
 straight and 

             
look the world

              
 right in the 


eye


(Verse 1)
             
All through th

              
e years that I

             
 grew up ma ta

              
ught these thi

       
ngs to me
             
But I was youn

              
g and foolish 

             
then and much 

              
too blind to s

           
ee
             
I ignored the 

              
things she sai

     
d as if I'd ne

ver heard
              
Now I see and 

              
understand the

             
 wisdom of her

 
 words

(Chorus)
             
Walk tall walk

              
 straight and 

             
look the world

              
 right in the 


eye
             
That's what my

              
 mama told me 

     
when I was abo

ut knee high
             
She said son b

              
e a proud man 

    
and hold your 

head up high
              
Walk tall walk

              
 straight and 

             
look the world

              
 right in the 


eye

(Verse 2)
             
I started goin

              
' places where

             
 the youngster

             
s shouldn't go
             
I got to know 

              
the kind of gi

         
rls it's bette

r not to know
             
I fell in with

              
 a bad crowd a

   
nd laughed and

 drank with th

em
              
Through the la

              
ughter mama's 

             
words would ec

           
ho now and the

n

(Chorus)
             
Walk tall walk

              
 straight and 

             
look the world

              
 right in the 


eye
             
That's what my

              
 mama told me 

     
when I was abo

ut knee high
             
She said son b

              
e a proud man 

    
and hold your 

head up high
              
Walk tall walk

              
 straight and 

             
look the world

              
 right in the 

  
eye

(Verse 3)
             
I got in troub

              
le with the la

             
w and I'm in p

      
rison now
             
Through these 

              
prison bars I 

           
see things so 

much different

 now
             
I've got one y

              
ear left to se

        
rve and when m

y time is done
              
I'll walk tall

              
 and straight 

             
and make ma pr

              
oud to call me

 
 son

(Chorus)
             
Walk tall walk

              
 straight and 

             
look the world

              
 right in the 


eye
             
That's what my

              
 mama told me 

     
when I was abo

ut knee high
             
She said son b

              
e a proud man 

    
and hold your 

head up high
              
Walk tall walk

              
 straight and 

             
look the world

              
 right in the 


eye
              
Walk tall walk

              
 straight and 

             
look the world

              
 right in the 


eye
     E       N.C. A
Walk tall    walk tall