When Mama Prayed chords by Randy Travis

Chords with lyrics

God Bless!


(Capo on 1st Fret...Per CD)...The C/GC/G chord is 3X2013


Intro Chords:  E minorEm  Cmaj7Cmaj7  E minorEm  Cmaj7Cmaj7  E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD  G+G


G+G      C/GC/G        G+G
Daddy never went to church on Sunday
G+G         C/GC/G       G+G
He said that's one thing I'll never do
  C majorC              G+G
But mama never gave up she said one day
     Am7Am7      C majorC      DsusDsus  D MajorD
He'll be sitting here beside me and you

G+G        C/GC/G     G+G
I can still hear mama softly talking
G+G           C/GC/G      G+G
with her tears falling on her folded hands
C majorC              G+G
So that Easter Sunday Daddy walked in
Am7Am7       C majorC      DsusDsus  D MajorD
That's when I began to understand

Chorus:

     E minorEm  C majorC       G+G   D MajorD
When mama prayed, good things happen
     E minorEm  C majorC      DsusDsus  D MajorD
When mama prayed, lives were changed
     E minorEm         D/F#D/F#
Not much more than five foot tall
  G+G         C majorC   E minor 7Em7 A minorAm      D MajorD
But mountains big and small,  crumbled all away
       E minorEm  Cmaj7Cmaj7   E minorEm  C majorC   D MajorD   G+G
When mama prayed


G+G       C/GC/G      G+G
Seventeen and wild I hit the bottle
G+G    C/GC/G        G+G
Doing anything I dang well pleased
C majorC                  G+G
Burning down life's highway at full throttle
   Am7Am7      C majorC       DsusDsus  D MajorD
While mama burned a candle on her knees

G+G       C/GC/G       G+G
Then one night I came home half sober
G+G     C/GC/G       G+G
I saw mama kneeling in the den
   C majorC                 G+G
As I listened, her and Jesus talked it over
   Am7Am7       C majorC         DsusDsus  D MajorD
And I knew my restless days were 'bout to end

Chorus:

     E minorEm  C majorC       G+G   D MajorD
When mama prayed, good things happen
     E minorEm  C majorC      DsusDsus  D MajorD
When mama prayed, lives were changed
     E minorEm         D/F#D/F#
Not much more than five foot tall
  G+G         C majorC   E minor 7Em7 A minorAm      D MajorD
But mountains big and small,  crumbled all away
       G+G
When mama prayed


Bridge:

B minorBm                 C majorC
It isn't like everyone of them got answered
    G+G                   D MajorD
But the times they weren't it seems to me were rare
  B minorBm            C majorC   E minor 7Em7
You almost felt sorry for the devil
   A minorAm       C majorC       DsusDsus  D MajorD
Cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer

       E minorEm   C majorC   G+G   D MajorD
When mama prayed

E minorEm  C majorC   DsusDsus  D MajorD


     E minorEm         D/F#D/F#
Not much more than five foot tall
  G+G         C majorC   E minor 7Em7 A minorAm      D MajorD
But mountains big and small,  crumbled all away
      E minorEm   C majorC  E minor 7Em7
When mama prayed
   A minorAm      DsusDsus  D MajorD
They crumbled all away
       E minorEm   Cmaj7Cmaj7   E minorEm   Cmaj7Cmaj7   E minorEm   C majorC  D MajorD  G+G
When Mama Prayed