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