Hope and a prayer
Are not a lot
But hope and prayer
Are all we’ve got
Me and the five kids and the wife at home
It still just feels like I am all alone

Someday there’ll be
A field of plenty
That was meant for me
To tend
We’ll sleep with eider down
Cut the bread
And pass the jug around
My friend

But until that day
We can only pray
Pray for rain
We pray for rain

My hands are cracked
From working the land
My back is bent
It’s hard to stand

Like my father
And his one before
Just trying to find a living
Nothing more

Someday there’ll be
No more fallen angels
Just a place for me
To spend
A quiet time alone
Where the sunlight finds me
A place that I call home
My friend

But until that day
We can only pray
Pray for rain
We pray for rain

Hope and a prayer
Are not a lot
But hope and prayer
Are all we’ve got

Someday there’ll be
A heavenly choir
Waiting there for me
My friend

But until that day
We can only pray
Pray for rain
We pray for rain