Mamas Prayer chords by Merle Haggard

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: E

Verse 1:
E N.C.                                A N.C.           E N.C.
Back when I was doing time, there's a night I can't forget
  E N.C.                                                B7 N.C.
A mad man with a knife in hand tried to kill me while I slept
E N.C.                       E7 N.C.    A N.C.            E N.C.
Somehow the knife missed its mark and I pinned the raging man
    E N.C.        B7 N.C.             E N.C.
Somehow my Mama's prayers had worked again


Verse 2:
    E N.C.               E7 N.C.            A N.C.       E N.C.
One night, while we were driving across the mighty Texas plains
  E N.C.                                                   B7 N.C.
A car pulled out with its headlights out, head on into our lane
   E N.C.                      E7 N.C.  A N.C.            E N.C.
As Deanrow swerved to miss the car
I felt a mighty hand
    E N.C.        B7 N.C.     E N.C.
Somehow my Mama's prayers had worked again

Chorus:
       A
Mama's prayers were always with me through the battlefield of life
E                                                      B7
  She prayed for me and said amen in the name of Jesus Christ
         E                                     A            E
From the death house in San Quentin, I walked away a better man
    E             B7                  E
Somehow my Mama's prayers had worked again


[Instrumental Break]
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Chorus:
       A
Mama's prayers were always with me through the battlefield of life
E                                                      B7
  She prayed for me and said amen in the name of Jesus Christ
         E                                     A            E
From the death house in San Quentin, I walked away a better man
    E             B7                  E
Somehow my Mama's prayers had worked again