Your mother still prays for you, Jack
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1. The night was dark and stormy, the wind was howling wild,
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as an aged mother gazed upon the
portrait of her child.
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As she gazed on the baby's
features that once filled her heart with joy,
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he's now
in this wild world roaming, that mother's long lost boy.
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Your mother still prays for you, Jack, your mother still prays for you,
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in a home far over the ocean, your mother still
prays for you.
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3. At last there came a letter, it was deeply
edged in black,
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from a
comrade long forgotten, who still remembered Jack.
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They have lain
your dear old mother in a grave so dark and cold,
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and she
wants her boy who is roaming
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to meet
her on the streets of gold. + CHORUS + G - C - D - G
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3. His stony heart was broken, as he thought of his mother dear,
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and in
spite of his comrades laughing, he could not keep back his tears.
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In spite of the great tempolations that once filled his heart with tears,
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so he started
for Heaven that evening, as sweetly the people did sing.
+ CHORUS
(orig. = capo 1st; video = capo 3rd) (The Carter
Family)