Walk Tall chords by Val Doonican

Chords with lyrics

Reached no 3 in the UK charts in 1964

(Intro)
N.C. D MajorD
Walk tall

(Chorus)
   G+G                D MajorD         G+G
Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye
    C majorC             G+G
That's what my mama told me when I was about knee high
  C majorC              G+G
She said son be a proud man and hold your head up high
                   D MajorD         G+G
Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye

(Verse 1)
G+G                    D MajorD           G+G
All through the years that I grew up ma taught these things to me
  C majorC                G+G
But I was young and foolish then and much too blind to see
C majorC                G+G
I ignored the things she said as if I'd never heard
               D MajorD       G+G
Now I see and understand the wisdom of her words

(Chorus)
   G+G                D MajorD         G+G
Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye
    C majorC             G+G
That's what my mama told me when I was about knee high
  C majorC              G+G
She said son be a proud man and hold your head up high
                   D MajorD         G+G
Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye

(Verse 2)
G+G                D MajorD          G+G
I started goin' places where the youngsters shouldn't go
 C majorC                 G+G
I got to know the kind of girls it's better not to know
 C majorC              G+G
I fell in with a bad crowd and laughed and drank with them
                    D MajorD      G+G
Through the laughter mama's words would echo now and then

(Chorus)
   G+G                D MajorD         G+G
Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye
    C majorC             G+G
That's what my mama told me when I was about knee high
  C majorC              G+G
She said son be a proud man and hold your head up high
                   D MajorD         G+G E MajorE
Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye

(Verse 3)
 A augmentedA                E MajorE       A augmentedA
I got in trouble with the law and I'm in prison now
D MajorD                   A augmentedA
Through these prison bars I see things so much different now
D MajorD                  A augmentedA
I've got one year left to serve and when my time is done
                    E MajorE        A augmentedA
I'll walk tall and straight and make ma proud to call me son

(Chorus)
A augmentedA                  E MajorE         A augmentedA
Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye
    D MajorD             A augmentedA
That's what my mama told me when I was about knee high
  D MajorD              A augmentedA
She said son be a proud man and hold your head up high
                   E MajorE         A augmentedA
Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye
                   E MajorE         A augmentedA
Walk tall walk straight and look the world right in the eye
   E MajorE    N.C. A augmentedA
Walk tall  walk tall