When Mama Prayed

For you I am praying

For you I am praying

For you I am praying

I'm praying for you

Daddy never went to church on Sunday

He said that's one thing I'll never do

Mama never gave up she said one day

He'll be sitting here beside me and you

I can still hear Mama softly talking

Her tears falling on her folded hands

So that Easter Sunday Daddy walked

That's when I began to understand

When Mama prayed, good things happened

When Mama prayed, lives were changed

Not much more than five foot tall

But mountains big and small

Crumbled all the way when Mama prayed

Seventeen and wild I hit the bottom

Doing and thing I dang well please

Burning down life's highway at full throttle

While Mama burned a candle on her knees

Then one night I came home half sober

I saw Mama kneeling in the den

As I listened, she and Jesus talked it over

And I knew my restless days were 'bout to end

It isn't like every one of them got answered

But the times they weren't seems to me were rare

You almost felt sorry for the devil

Cause heaven knows he didn't have prayer

When Mama prayed

Not much more than five foot tall

But mountains big and small

Crumbled all the way when Mama prayed

Crumbled all the way when Mama prayed