When Mama Prayed Chords by Randy Travis

_ For _ you, _ I am _ _ _ praying.
_ For you, _ [Abm] I am praying. _ _ _
For _ you, _ I am _ praying. _ _ _ _ _
_ I'm praying _ _ for _ _ _ you. _ _
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_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [Cm] _
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_ _ Daddy never [Db] went to [Ab] church on Sunday. _ _ _ _
_ He said, [Db] that's one thing I'll never [Ab] do. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ But Mama never gave up, she [Ab] said, one day. _ _ _ _
[Bb] He'll be sitting [C] here [Db] [Bbm] beside me and [Eb] you. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ I can still [Db] hear Mama [Ab] softly talking.
_ Her _ _ _ _ tears [Db] falling on her [Ab] folded _ hands. _ _ _
_ [Db] So that Easter Sunday Daddy [Ab] walked in, _ _ _ _
_ [Bbm] _ that's when I [Db] began to [Eb] understand.
_ _ _ When Mama [Fm] _ prayed, _ [Db] _ _
[Ab] good things happened.
_ [Eb] _ When Mama [Fm] _ prayed, _ [Db] _ _
lives [Eb] were _ changed. _ _
Not [Fm] much more than five [Eb] foot tall, _
[Ab] but mountains big and [Db] small,
[Ab] _
_ [Bbm] _ crumbled all [Eb] away when Mama [Fm] prayed.
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_ [Ab] _ _ Seventeen [Db] and while I hit [Ab] the bottle, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ doing _ [Db] anything I dang [Ab] well _ _ pleased. _ _
_ [Db] _ Burning down life's highway at [Ab] full throttle, _ _ _ _
[Bbm] while Mama burned a candle on her [Eb] _ _ knees.
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_ [Ab] Then one night [Db] I came [Ab] home half sober.
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_ [Ab] I saw [Db] Mama kneeling in [Ab] the den. _ _ _
As [Db] I listened, she and Jesus talked [Ab] it over. _ _ _ _
And [Bbm] I knew my restless days were about [Eb] to end.
_ Cause when Mama [Fm] _ prayed, _ [Db] _ _
good [Ab] things happened.
_ [Eb] _ When Mama [Fm] _ prayed, _ [Db] _ _
lives [Eb] were _ changed. _ _
Not [Fm] much more than five [Eb] foot tall, _
[Ab] but mountains big and [Db] small,
[Ab] _
_ [Bbm] _ crumbled all [Eb] away when Mama [Ab] prayed. _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ It isn't like every one of them [Db] got _ answered, _ _ _
[Ab] but the times they weren't, seems to [Eb] me, were rare. _ _ _
_ [Cm] You almost felt sorry for [Db] the devil,
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _
[Bbm] cause heaven knows [Db] he didn't _ [Eb] have a _ prayer.
_ When [Fm] Mama prayed.
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ Not [Fm] much more than five foot [Eb] _ tall,
[Ab] but mountains big and _ small,
_ [Bbm] _ crumbled all [Eb] away when Mama [Fm] _ prayed.
_ [Db] _ _ _
_ [Bbm] Crumbled all [Eb] away _ _ _ when [Fm] Mama prayed.
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