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 they are 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 Janette Ingram