Mahalia Jackson - If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again lyrics

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 If I could hear my mother pray again If I could hear her tender voice as then So happy I would be, would mean so much to me If I could hear my mother pray again She used to pray that I on Jesus would rely And always walk the shining gospel way So trusting still His love, I'll seek that home above Where I shall meet my mother some glad day Within the old home place, her patience smilin' face Was always spreading comfort, hope and cheer And when she used to sing to her eternal key It was the song the angel love to hear Her work on earth is done and her life crown has been won And she will be at rest with Him above And some glad mornin', she, I know will welcome me To their eternal home of peace and love If I could hear my mother pray again If I could hear her tender voice as then So happy I would be, would mean so much to me If I could hear my mother pray again If I could hear my mother pray again, pray again