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Thread #116137   Message #2515180
Posted By: Richie
14-Dec-08 - 03:57 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The authors of the 'Carter Family songs'
Subject: Lyr Add: YOUR MOTHER STILL PRAYS FOR YOU JACK
Your Mother Still Prays (For You, Jack) is a song from F.M. Eliot in 1893.

Your Mother Still Prays For You Jack- Carter Family 1935

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

CHORUS: 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 tempolations
That once filled his heart with tears
So he started for Heaven that evening
As sweetly the people did sing