"Walk a little plainer daddy," said a little boy so frail,

"I'm following your footsteps and I don't want to fail.

Sometimes your steps are 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;

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.

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 want to lead him right, and help him to be true;

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

- Author Unknown