Walk a Little Plainer

Walk a little plainer, Daddy, said a little boy so small

I’m following in your footsteps and I don’t want to fall.

Sometimes your steps are very plain, sometimes they’re 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, when I am tempted, I don’t know what to do;

So walk a little plainer, Daddy, for I must follow you.

Someday when I’m grown up, you are like I want to be,

Then I will have 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. 

~Author Unknown