When Mama Prayed
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Daddy never went to church on Sunday,
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he said, That's one thing I'll never do
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But mama never gave up, she said, One day,
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he'll be sitting here beside of me and you.
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I can still hear mama softly talking,
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her tears falling on her folded hands
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So that Easter Sunday daddy walked in,
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that's when I began / / / / to understand
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When mama prayed, good things happened
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When mama prayed, lives were changed
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Not much more than five foot tall,
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but mountains big and small
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Crumbled all away when mama prayed
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Seventeen and wild I hit the bottle,
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doing / / / anything I dang well pleased
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Burning down life's highway at full throttle,
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while mama burned a candle on her knees
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Then one night I came home half sober,
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I saw mama kneeling in the den
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As I listened she and Jesus talked it over,
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and I knew my restless days were 'bout to end
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It wasn't like every one of them got answered,
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but the times they weren't it seemed to me were rare
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you almost felt sorry for the devil,
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cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer
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when mama prayed / / /
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Not much more than five foot tall,
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but mountains big and small
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Crumbled all the way when mama prayed
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Yeah, they crumbled all away / / /
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when mama prayed (fading) C D G
