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Ben Harper
There Will Be a Light
Mother Pray

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Mother Pray

Release date: 2004

From There Will Be a Light

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"Mother Pray" is a track by Ben Harper, from the album There Will Be a Light, released 2004. Full lyrics are available below.

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Mother Pray

How sweet and happy seem those days of which I dream

Memories I recall now and then

And with a rapture sweet my weary heart would beat

If I could hear my mother pray again

If I could only hear my mother pray again

If I could hear her tender voice as then

How happy I would be

It would mean so much to me

If I could hear my mother pray again

Around the old homeplace her cherishing smiling face

Was always bringing comfort joy and cheer

And when she used to sing to her eternal King

It was the sound I loved to hear

If I could only hear my mother pray again

If I could hear her tender voice as then

How happy I would be

It would mean so much to me

If I could hear my mother pray again

If I could hear my mother pray again

If I could hear my mother pray again

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Track details

From There Will Be a Light

2004

Album

There Will Be a Light

Release year

2004

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Credits

Credited: Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, James Rowe, John Vaughan, The Blind Boys Of Alabama