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