A little girl prayed at the close of the day   'Cause her daddy had gone far away   On her little face was a look of despair   I stood there and listened, and I heard this prayer      My mommie says, "Daddy has brought us to shame   And I'm never no more to mention his name"   Lord take me and lead me and hold to my hand   Oh heavenly father, help me understand      You know friends I wonder   How many homes are broken tonight   And just how many tears are shed   By some little word of anger   That never should have been said      I'd like to tell you a story of a family I once knew   Well call them Mary and William and their little daughter Sue   Now Mary was just a plain mother and Bill was just a usual dad   And they had their little family quarrels like everybody else   But neither one really got mad      Then one day something happened   It was nothing of course   But one word led to another   And the last word led to a divorce      Now here were two grown up people   Who failed to use common sense   They strengthened their own selfish pride   At little Sue's expense      You know she didn't ask to be brought to this world   To drift from pillar to post   But a divorce never stops to consider   The ones it hurts the most      There'd be a lot more honest loving   In this wicked ole world today   If just a few parted parents   Could hear little Sue say      Take me and lead me and hold to my hand   Oh heavenly father, help me understand