Randy Travis – When Mama Prayed (Guitar)

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I love this song, it tells my story to a T. Learn it and pass it on. God Bless! Intro Chords: Em Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 Em C D G
G           C/G               G
Daddy never went to church on Sunday

G                  C/G              G
He said that's one thing I'll never do

    C                           G
But mama never gave up she said one day

         Am7            C           Dsus   D
He'll be sitting here beside me and you

G                C/G         G
I can still hear mama softly talking

G                      C/G           G
with her tears falling on her folded hands

C                           G
So that Easter Sunday Daddy walked in

Am7             C           Dsus    D
That's when I began to understand
Chorus:
          Em    C             G     D
When mama prayed, good things happen

          Em    C            Dsus    D
When mama prayed, lives were changed

         Em                  D/F#
Not much more than five foot tall

    G                 C     Em7 Am            D
But mountains big and small,    crumbled all away

             Em    Cmaj7     Em    C     D     G
When mama prayed

G             C/G            G
Seventeen and wild I hit the bottle

G        C/G               G
Doing anything I dang well pleased

C                                   G
Burning down life's highway at full throttle

      Am7           C             Dsus   D
While mama burned a candle on her knees

G              C/G              G
Then one night I came home half sober

G          C/G             G
I saw mama kneeling in the den

     C                                 G
As I listened, her and Jesus talked it over

      Am7              C                  Dsus   D
And I knew my restless days were 'bout to end
Chorus:
          Em    C             G     D
When mama prayed, good things happen

          Em    C            Dsus   D
When mama prayed, lives were changed

         Em                  D/F#
Not much more than five foot tall

    G                 C     Em7 Am            D 
But mountains big and small,    crumbled all away

             G
When mama prayed
Bridge:
Bm                                 C
It isn't like everyone of them got answered

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

    Bm                        C      Em7
You almost felt sorry for the devil

      Am              C             Dsus   D
Cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer

             Em     C     G     D
When mama prayed
Em C Dsus D
         Em                  D/F#
Not much more than five foot tall

    G                 C     Em7 Am            D
But mountains big and small,    crumbled all away

            Em      C    Em7
When mama prayed

     Am            Dsus   D
They crumbled all away

             Em     Cmaj7     Em     Cmaj7     Em     C    D    G
When Mama Prayed