Joe South - Walk A Mile In My Shoes Lyrics

(By Joe South and The Believers)
(Written by Joe South)

(Peaked at # 12 in 1970)
(Re-made 4 months later by Willie Hightower, managed only # 107)

If I could be you and you could be me for just one hour
If we could find a way to get inside each other's mind
If you could see you through my eyes instead of your ego
I believe you'd be surprised to see that you'd been blind

Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Yeah, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes

Now, your whole world you see around you is just a reflection
And the law of karma says you're gonna reap just what you sow
Yes, you will

So unless you've lived a life of total perfection
Mm-mm, you'd better be careful of every stone that you should throw
Yeah, yeah

Yet we spend the day throwin' stones at one another
'cause I don't think or wear my hair the same way you do
Well, I may be common people but I'm your brother
And when you strike out and try to hurt me it's a 'hurtin you,
Lord, have mercy

Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Yeah, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes

There are people on reservations and out in the ghettos
And brother, there, but for the grace of God, go you and I
Yeah, yeah

If I only had the wings of little angels
Yeah, don'tcha you know I'd fly
To the top of the mountain and then I'd cry?

Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Hey, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Better walk a mile in my shoes

Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Oh, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes,

Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Hey, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes

[Thanks to Ingrid Eng for correcting these lyrics]