When Mama Prayed Lyrics - Randy Travis

For you I am praying 

For you I am praying 

For you I am oraying 

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 

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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 

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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 

Chorus