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.