The Carter Family - Your Mother Still Prays (For You Jack) Lyrics

Lyrics Your Mother Still Prays (For You Jack) - The Carter Family



The night was dark and stormy
The wind was howling wild
As an aged mother gazed upon
The portrait of her child
As she gazed on the baby's features
That once filled her heart with joy
He's now in this wild world roaming
That mother's long lost boy Your mother still prays for you, Jack Your mother still prays for you In a home far over the ocean Your mother still prays for you
At last there came a letter
It was deeply edged in black
From a comrade long forgotten
Who still remembered Jack
They have lain your dear old mother
In a grave so dark and cold
And she wants her boy who is roaming
To meet her on the streets of gold
His stony heart was broken
As he thought of his mother dear
And in spite of his comrades laughing
He could not keep back his tears
In spite of the great temptations
That once filled his heart with tears
So he started for Heaven that evening
As sweetly the people did sing



Writer(s): A.p. Carter


The Carter Family - The Best of the Carter Family, Vol. 1
Album The Best of the Carter Family, Vol. 1
date of release
25-03-2008

1 Diamonds In the Rough
2 Homestead On the Farm
3 Where Shall I Be?
4 Engine 143
5 Your Mother Still Prays (For You Jack)
6 The Storms Are On the Open
7 Room In Heaven for Me
8 Little Log Cabin By the Sea
9 Little Moses
10 Keep On the Suuny Side / Announcer / Alabama Gals
11 What Would You Give In Exchange for Your Soul
12 Bonnie Blue Eyes
13 Soldier's Sweetheart
14 Just A Few More Days
15 Broken Down Tramp
16 Del Rio
17 Goin' Back to Texas
18 Why There's a Tear In My Eye
19 Cyclone of Rye Cove
20 There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy
21 Broken Engagement
22 I'm Sitting On Top of the World
23 Honey Babe
24 I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart
25 The Last Letter
26 I Wouldn't Mind Dying
27 Chinese Breakdown
28 One Little Word
29 Old Ladies Home
30 Who's That Knocking?
31 Keep On the Sunny Side / When Our Lord Shall Come Again




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