An Answered Prayer chords by The Crabb Family

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Intro 1

Verse 1

As a child I thought that

mom could walk on water

Others had their heroes, she was mine

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Verse 2

She never traveled far

or gained much worldly honor

Verse 3
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But she could reach the throne of God
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at any time
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Lord, would you tell Mama
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that tonight her prayers were answered?
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When the angels were rejoicing,
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it was for me.
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From the path of sin,
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my soul has been delivered.
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Please tell Mama
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by her prayers  I now am free.

Interlude 1

Verse 4

With each passing day,

she prayed for my salvation.

Verse 5

But her Christian ways

just never fit my life.

Verse 6
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Since she made it home,
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I know she's been waiting.
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Wish I could see her face
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when she gets the news tonight.

Verse 7

Lord, would you tell Mama

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that tonight her prayers were answered?

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When the angels were rejoicing,

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it was for me.

Verse 11

From the path of sin,

Verse 12

my soul has been delivered.

Verse 13
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Please tell Mama
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By her prayers I now am free.
Please tell Mama,
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by her prayers I now am free.
Applause
Thank you very much.
It's been a privilege for
the Crabb family
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these last few years
to travel across the country
and tell people everywhere
about the saving power
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of Jesus Christ.
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About ten years ago,
the Lord Jesus
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reached down in a gutter
and picked up an old drunk,
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sobered him up,
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changed his life,
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and gave him a brand new future.
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I know that fellow pretty good
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because I was the man.
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I went to AA meetings time after time,
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and I was going to prove to God
I didn't need his help,
I'd do it all on my own.
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It seemed like it just got worse.
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My children, my family
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shed many tears over my condition,
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and I tried many times
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to break the chain
that Satan had around me.
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But you know, sin will take you farther
than you intend to go.
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It'll keep you longer than you in tend to stay,
and it will cost you more
than you intend to pay.
I heard an old preacher say
that one time,
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and it's the truth.
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I was running a car wash in Beaverdam,
Kentucky,
and I was about to lose my business
because I couldn't stay sober.
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I was bitter.
I had so much hatred I couldn't cry.
Didn't want to be around church people.
The people I sung to
were not beautiful people like you,
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friendly people, loving people, kind people.
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My congregations were drunks.
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But that day in Beaverdam, Kentucky,
it rained,
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and on a rainy day,
Bm 
not too many people get
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their car washed.
And I was just sitting there
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in my car wash.
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I didn't have anything to drink,
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any way to go get anything,
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and no money to get it with.
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And I was just sitting there thinking about
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what a horrible person I was,
what a failure I'd been to my family,
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when all of a sudden,
I heard a voice of someone
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that I didn't expect to show up.
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I didn't have any stained glass windows
in my car wash.
I didn't have a choir
singing.
I didn't even have a preacher
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there preaching to me.
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But I heard the sweetest voice
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and I'll never forget it as long as I live.
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I heard the Lord say to me,
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I love
you."
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I'll never forget that as long as I live.
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Tears started running down my face
and I started talking to him
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and I said, Lord, I love you too.
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And I said, God,
if you'll give me some peace.
You see the world says that's peace.
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I heard Tim Surratt say this the other night.
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The devil tells you the grass is
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greener on the other side,
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but he don't tell you there's a
septic tank
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under that green grass.
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And I said to him, I said,
Lord if you'll give me some peace,
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let me feel peace in my heart
I want out of this prison.
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I said I'll live for you for the rest of my life
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and I'll sit on the back seat
of a church somewhere
and enjoy my peace for the rest of my life
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and I meant that with all of my heart.
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He knows when you're praying
from here
and he knows when you're
praying from here
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and buddy it was from here.
I fell down on my knees
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and I looked up to a merciful Lord Lord, and I prayed a prayer something like this,
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Lord, would you please forgive me?
And immediately,
the chains came off.
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The prison door came open.
And Gerald Crambe
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became a brand new man
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by the grace of Almighty God.
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And I'm gonna lift him up until I die.
some people don't understand why I get so
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excited about it sometimes and I tell them this
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I gave the devil a hundred percent
I'm not gonna cheat him
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out of anything
Bm 
I wrote a song that is my testimony
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y 'all excuse me whoo
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feeling something up here.
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I sat down one day
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and I started writing these words down.
My sleep is gone.
My heart is full of sorrow
and I can't believe
how much I've let you down.
I dread the pain that waits for me tomorrow when the Sun reveals
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my broken dreams scattered on the ground.
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I've been there many times.
I put those words in my briefcase,
didn't even have a tune.
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About six months later
the Lord began to deal with me
and said, you need to get that out
and finish it and this time
I don't want you to tell them where
you've been
but I want you to tell them
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where you are right now.
Abby's happy about where
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you are right now.
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And I finished the song.
And I sung it to my family.
always get to try my
new songs out on them.
And I want them to really act
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like they like them.
And Jason said, I want to record that song.
And Jason Kelly and Tara took it and recorded it,
and immediately the song just got all kind
of attention.
It went to number one.
It stayed there for several months,
and then it became the number
one song of 1998.
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We saw over 1 ,700 people saved to the
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tune of Please Forgive Me in 1998.
And I get so blessed every time
something like that happens,
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But the greatest blessing, Scott,
I get out of this song,
is when night after night,
I get to stand beside my youngins
and watch them sing
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their daddy's testimony.
How did the Lord reach way down,
picked up an old drunk,
saved him, changed him,
made a new man out of him.
And I've got good news for you.
If he did it for me,
he's just waiting to do it for you.
Thank you.