Carter Family Songs Lyrics & Chords
Your mother still prays for you, Jack

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Your mother still prays for you, Jack

 

             G                             C                D                          G

1. The night was dark and stormy, the wind was howling wild,

              G  /                 C                       D                     G

    as an aged mother gazed upon the portrait of her child.

                  G                             C                   D                                     G

    As she gazed on the baby's features that once filled her heart with joy,

              G                               C                     D                         G

    he's now in this wild world roaming, that mother's long lost boy.

 

           G                              C                        D                             G

Your mother still prays for you, Jack, your mother still prays for you,

        G                          C                   D                              G

in a home far over the ocean, your mother still prays for you.

 

+ G - C - D - G

 

         G                          C                    D                       G

3. At last there came a letter, it was deeply edged in black,

                 G                        C                 D                         G

    from a comrade long forgotten, who still remembered Jack.

                      G                            C                 D                         G

    They have lain your dear old mother in a grave so dark and cold,

                    G                               C     

    and she wants her boy who is roaming

            D                                     G

    to meet her on the streets of gold.     + CHORUS  + G - C - D - G

 

             G                       C                     D                               G

3. His stony heart was broken, as he thought of his mother dear,

              G                               C                    D                                   G

 and in spite of his comrades laughing, he could not keep back his tears.

           G                                 C                D                                    G

    In spite of the great tempolations that once filled his heart with tears,

               G                                 C                      D                             G

   so he started for Heaven that evening, as sweetly the people did sing.

 

+ CHORUS