Walk Plainer Daddy

 

"Walk a little plainer, Daddy"

said a little boy one day

"I'm following in your footsteps

and I want to know the way.

  Sometimes your steps are very plain,

  and sometimes hard to see.

  So walk a little plainer, Daddy

  For you are leading me.

  I know that once you walked this way,

many years ago,

And what you did along the way,

I'd really like to know.

For sometimes I am tempted

and don't know what to do

So walk a little plainer, Daddy,

for I must follow you.

Sometime when I am all grown up,

you are like what I want to be

Then I will know a little boy

who will want to follow me.

And I would want to lead him right

and help him to be true.

So walk a little plainer, Daddy,

for we must follow you."

 

  Written by Elizabeth Dawson

 

 

       

 

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