Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro chords

Daddy never went to church on Sunday

He said that's one thing I'll never do

 But mama never gave up she said one day

 He'll be sitting here beside me and you

I can still hear mama softly talking

with her tears falling on her folded hands

So that Easter Sunday Daddy walked in

That's when I began to understand

Chorus

 When mama prayed, good things happen

 When mama prayed, lives were changed

 Not much more than five foot tall

 But mountains big and small, crumbled all away

 When mama prayed

Seventeen and wild I hit the bottle

Doing anything I dang well pleased

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, her and Jesus talked it over

 And I knew my restless days were 'bout to end

Chorus

 When mama prayed, good things happen

 When mama prayed, lives were changed

 Not much more than five foot tall

 But mountains big and small, crumbled all away

 When mama prayed

Bridge

It isn't like everyone of them got answered

 But the times they weren't it seems to me were rare

 You almost felt sorry for the devil

 Cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer

 When mama prayed

 Not much more than five foot tall

 But mountains big and small, crumbled all away

 When mama prayed

 They crumbled all away

 When Mama Prayed