Timeless Truths ‎#805

805. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again

1 How sweet and happy seem those days of which I dream,
When memory recalls them now and then!
And with what rapture sweet my weary heart would beat,
If I could hear my mother pray again.

Refrain:
If I could hear my mother pray again,
If I could hear her tender voice as then!
So glad I’d be, ’twould mean so much to me,
If I could hear my mother pray again.

2 She used to pray that I on Jesus would rely,
And always walk the shining gospel way;
So trusting still His love, I seek that home above,
Where I shall meet my mother some glad day. [Refrain]

3 Within the old home-place her patient, smiling face
Was always spreading comfort, hope and cheer;
And when she used to sing to her eternal King,
It was the songs the angels loved to hear. [Refrain]

4 Her work on earth is done, the life-crown has been won,
And she will be at rest with Him above;
And some glad morning she, I know, will welcome me
To that eternal home of peace and love. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: How sweet and happy seem those days of which I dream
• Title: If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
• Author: James Rowe
• Refrain First Line: If I could hear my mother pray again
• Meter: 12.10.12.10 R
• Scripture:
  James 5:16
• Source: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/If_I_Could_Hear_My_Mother_Pray_Again); Anonymous/Unknown, The Blue Book (48)

Tune Information

• Name: [How sweet and happy seem those days of which I dream]
• Composer: John W. Vaughan
• Meter: 12.10.12.10 R
• Key: B♭ Major
• Source: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/If_I_Could_Hear_My_Mother_Pray_Again); Anonymous/Unknown, The Blue Book (48)