Praying for You
Authors: H.G. Jackson • Composers: Charles H. Gabriel • Meter: 8.8.9.9.9.8.9.8.8. with refrain • Language: English • Formats: lyrics, png • Copyright: Free PNG, Public Domain • Years: 1891
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1. Your mother is praying for you;
Young man, will you listen tonight?
Very far you have wander’d away
From the pathway of virtue and right;
You are lost in the mazes of sin;—
Oh, return! to your manhood be true!
Come to Jesus and pardon receive;
Your mother is praying for you,
Your mother is praying for you.
Chorus:
Your mother is praying,
(Your mother is praying for you!)
Still praying for you,
(Your mother is praying for you, for you;)
Your mother is praying,
(You have wander’d away; Oh, return while you may!)
Still praying for you.
(Your mother is praying for you, for you.)
2. Your mother, how oft when a child,
In her dear loving arms you found rest,
As she sooth’d you and sang you to sleep,
With your head pillow’d soft on her breast;
How fondly she gazed on you then,
Her mother-heart throbbed with joy,
While softly she murmured the pray’r,
“God bless you, my darling, my boy,
God bless you, my darling, my boy.”
3. Your mother is praying for you,
With grief-laden sighs and with tears;
You have wander’d from God, but her love
Has follow’d you thro’ the long years:
Though others have failed you, her heart
Has ever been faithful and true,
Tho’ long you have slighted her love,
She’s praying, still praying for you,
She’s praying, still praying for you.
4. Your mother’s in heaven tonight!
Ah! she turns from the soul-thrilling joy
Of the ransom’d, with yearnings t’ward earth,
And prays for her wandering boy.
In heaven she’s praying for you,
As she pray’d with her last fleeting breath,
When the light of her love beaming eyes
Was veil’d by the shadow of death,
Was veil’d by the shadow of death.