This one is dedicated to a fellow blogger - Damien Riley.
May you be inspired - everyday!
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face. -- Helen Keller
Walk Tall - Val Doonican
Walk tall, walk straight and look the world right in the eye
That's what my mama told me when I was about knee high
She said son, be a proud man and hold your head up high
Walk tall, walk straight and look the world right in the eye
All through the years that I grew up, ma taught these things to me
But I was young and foolish then and much too blind to see
I ignored the things she said as if I'd never heard
Now I see and understand the wisdom of her words
I started goin' places where the youngsters shouldn't go
I got to know the kind of girls it's better not to know
I fell in with a bad crowd and laughed and drank with them
Through the laughter mama's words would echo now and then
I got in trouble with the law and I'm in prison now
Through these prison bars I see things so much different now
I've got one year left to serve and when my time is done
I'll walk tall and straight and make ma proud to call me son
5 comments:
That is a great message! Thanks for the link as well.
Thanks for the song by one of my favourite Irish singers. I watched him sing this on TV years and years ago. It was good to be reminded of the song I had almost forgotten.
You're very welcome! The Irish connection again ;)
That's a very nice poem of your life. Hope you'll pull through soon. Good luck.
@ Anon - I am trying to get more of his music. First heard him when I was a child.
@ Senior Debutante - Perhaps this comment was about another post/ another person...one of us is confused ;)
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