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