Dan Varner - When Mama Prayed Lyrics

WHEN MAMA PRAYED
THOM SHEPHERD & BUDDY JEWELL

I WAS STILL HALF DRUNK AND REACHIN' FOR THE BOURBON WHEN MY FUMBLIN' FINGERS FOUND THAT KING JAMES VERSION WASN'T SURE IF EITHER ONE COULD STOP THE HURTIN'
BEHIND THAT MOTEL DOOR
BUT I PICKED THAT BIBLE UP AND TOOK A GOOD LOOK,
GOT TO THINKIN'BOUT MY MAMA AND HER GOOD BOOK
BET IT SCARED THE LIVIN' HELL OUT OF THE DEVIL,
EVERYDAY... WHEN MAMA PRAYED
CHORUS #1
WHEN MAMA PRAYED RAIN FELL ON THIRSTY FIELDS, SOULS GOT SAVED, THE SICK GOT HEALED,
MONEY CAME TO PAY OUR BILLS IN THE NICK OF TIME WHEN THE DOCTORS STOPPED BELIEVING,
SHE STILL LED THE SUNDAY SINGING
TEN YEARS PAST THE DAY THEY SENT HER HOME TO DIE BURDENS ROLLED AWAY... WHEN MAMA PRAYED
I REMEMBERED HOW SHE LOOKED AT ME THROUGH SAD EYES JUST BEFORE SHE CLOSED EM FOR THE LAST TIME
IN A TREMBLIN' VOICE SHE TOOK MY HAND AND SAID SON, WILL YOU PRAY WITH ME?
I'D LOST ALL HOPE. I THOUGHT MY LIFE WAS OVER
LORD KNOWS THE LAST TIME THAT SHE'D SEEN ME SOBER BUT I CLOSED MY EYES AND HELD ON HOPIN' SOMEDAY, SOMEWAY I'D BELIEVE,
THAT PRAYER SHE PRAYED FOR ME...
REPEAT CHORUS
BRIDGE:
AND IN THAT MOTEL ROOM, AS I RELIVED THAT MOMENT,
I KNEW MY HEART HAD CHANGED
LIKE A MIRACLE OF BIBILICAL PROPORTIONS, I'D NEVER BE THE SAME
REPEAT CHORUS
TAG:
YEAH, THAT'S HOW I GOT SAVED...CAUSE MAMA PRAYED...