"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 so 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-
Than 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."