When Mama Prayed lyrics and chords

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When Mama Prayed
Recorded by Randy Travis
Written by Paul Overstreet and Rory Lee

C           F                 C
Daddy never went to church on Sunday
                   F                C
He said that's one thing I'll never do
    F                           C
But mama never gave up she said one day
         Dm           F             G7
He'll be sitting here beside me and you

C                F           C
I can still hear mama softly talking
                       F             C
With her tears falling on her folded hands
F                           C
So that Easter Sunday Daddy walked in
Dm            F             G7
That's when I began to understand

          Am     F           C     G7
When mama prayed good things happen
          Am     F          G7
When mama prayed lives were changed
         Am                  G7
Not much more than five foot tall
    C                 F    Am  Dm           G7
But mountains big and small    crumbled all away
          Am    F Am F G7 C
When mama prayed

C             F              C
Seventeen and wild I hit the bottle
         F                 C
Doing anything I dang well pleased
F                                   C
Burning down life's highway at full throttle
      Dm            F             G7
While mama burned a candle on her knees

C              F                C
Then one night I came home half sober
           F               C
I saw mama kneeling in the den
     F                                C
As I listened she and Jesus talked it over
      Dm               F                  G7
And I knew my restless days were 'bout to end

          Am     F           C     G7
When mama prayed good things happen
          Am     F          G7
When mama prayed lives were changed
         Am                  G7
Not much more than five foot tall
    C                 F    Am  Dm           G7
But mountains big and small    crumbled all away
          Am    F
When mama prayed

Em                                  F
It isn't like every one of them got answered
        C                                      G7
But the times they weren't it seems to me were rare
    Em                        F      Am
You almost felt sorry for the devil
      Dm              F             G7
Cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer
          Am
When mama prayed

F        Am                  G7
Not much more than five foot tall
    C                 F    Am  Dm           G7
But mountains big and small    crumbled all away
          Am    F Am
When mama prayed          

     Dm           G7             Am    F
They crumbled all away when mama prayed

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