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.

Refrain:
Your mother is praying,
Still praying for you,
Your mother is praying,
Still praying for you.

2 Your mother, how oft when a child,
In her dear loving arms you found rest,
As she soothed 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.” [Refrain]

3 Your mother is praying for you,
With grief-laden sighs and with tears;
You have wandered from God, but her love
Has followed you through the long years:
Though others have failed you, her heart
Has ever been faithful and true,
Though long you have slighted her love,
She’s praying, still praying for you,
She’s praying, still praying for you. [Refrain]

4 Your mother’s in heaven tonight!
Ah! she turns from the soul-thrilling joy
Of the ransomed, with yearnings t’ward earth,
And prays for her wandering boy.
In heaven she’s praying for you,
As she prayed with her last fleeting breath,
When the light of her love beaming eyes
Was veiled by the shadow of death,
Was veiled by the shadow of death. [Refrain]