"Walk a little plainer, Daddy,”

"Walk a little plainer, Daddy,”

Said a little boy so frail.

“I’m following in your footsteps

and I don’t want to fail.”

Sometimes your steps are very plain---

Sometimes the’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’re 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 is an unknown child, a relative of kathphen