The Night I Learned How Not To Pray chords by
Iris Dement

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Key: A major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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I was laying on my
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belly in the middle of the living floor
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I was watching Howdy Doody so I'm guess
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D D 
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ing      it was right around four
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When I saw my baby brother tum
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Em Em 
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bling from the top of the stairs
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He was lying limp and silent and the
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blood was trickling through his shiny
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Hair

Verse 2
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When my mom saw my little brother she
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said you better run and get your dad
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And her voice was high and she was shak
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ing so I knew that this was bad
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Well we stood out at the mailbox watching
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her and dad and brother drive
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Away
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D D 
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And I didn't waste no time I got down on
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my knees right there and began to
Pray

Verse 3
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Well I prayed into the evening,
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never even took the time to have a  bite
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I was sure if I prayed hard enough
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D D 
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that God would make it  right
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We were at the kitchen table long pas
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G G 
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t  bedtime when we finally got that
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Call
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And I knew that it was over when my sister
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slammed that phone against the
Wall
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Verse 4
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That was the night I  learned
G G 
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how not to pray
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A A 
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God does what God
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D D 
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wants to  any way
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And I never did tell my mother,
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C C 
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I kept it from my sisters and all my
Brothers
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D D 
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G G 
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That was the night I  learned how not to pray
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Interlude 1
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Em Em 
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A A 
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Am Am 
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C C 
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Verse 5
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It was 41 years later when I  took my
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brothers picture out of a box
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Hung it on the wall and sat across
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D D 
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from him and I began to talk
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When the evening started I didn't
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Em Em 
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know what I was going to say
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But before the night was over I told them
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all about how I learned not to
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Pray

Verse 6
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That was the night I  learned
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how not to pray
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A A 
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God does what God
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D D 
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wants to  any way
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C C 
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And I never did tell my mother,
G G 
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C C 
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I kept it from my sisters and all my
Brothers
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D D 
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G G 
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C C 
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That
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was the night I
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G G 
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learned how not
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to pray

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