For a long long time I thought of leaving
I told myself it would be all right
I'd give them everything they needed
Then I heard my son in prayer one night
Dear God is it true what they say
The family that prays together stay that way
Could prayer make my daddy want to stay
If it's true teach my daddy how to pray
My dad don't think I know he's leaving
But I've seen that leaving look on him
And I know the reason mom's been crying
Don't he know how I need the both of them
I don't think he knows how I would miss him
And what would mama do if he was gone
And I wonder if he's ever noticed
That our house without our daddy ain't a home
Dear God is it true what they say
The family that prays together stay that way
Could prayer make my daddy want to stay
If it's true teach my daddy how to pray
If it's true teach my daddy how to pray
