Walk a Little Straighter

Infobox Single
Name = Walk A Little Straighter


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Artist = Billy Currington
Album = Billy Currington
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B-side =
Released = April 2003
Format = CD Single
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Genre = Country
Length = 3:43
Label = Mercury Nashville
Writer = Carson Chamberlain, Casey Beathard, Billy Currington
Producer = Carson Chamberlain
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Last single =
This single = "Walk A Little Straighter"
(2003)
Next single = "I Got A Feelin'"
(2004)
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"Walk A Little Straighter" is the debut single of country music artist Billy Currington that reached the Top Ten on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks, peaking at #8.

Content

The song tells a story of a boy whose father has alcoholism. It starts by telling about the boy waiting for his dad to come home at night, and then his dad just going and passing out drunk in his chair. Then it talks about the boy, now 18 years old and graduating from high school, watching his father leave the gym drunk before the boy's name was called. In the end, it says that one thing the boy learned from his father is that he will never drink and put his kids through that.