WALK A LITTLE PLAINER, DADDY

Walk a little plainer, Daddy
said a little girl so frail,
I'm following in your footstep
and I do not want to fail.

Somtimes your steps are very
plain, sometimes they are hard to see,
So walk a little plainer, Daddy,
for yo are leading me.

I know that once you walked those
ways many years ago
And what you did along the way
I'd really like to know.

For sometimes when I'm tempted
I don't know what to do,
So walk a little plainer, Daddy,
for I must follow you.

Some day when I'm grown up, you
are what I want to be,
Then, I will have a little boy
who will want to follow me.

And I would want to lead her
right, and help her to be true;
So walk a little plainer, Daddy,
for I must follow you.

May Lightfoot


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