Just the other night a hometown football game
My wife and I ran into my old high school flame
And as I introduced them the past came back to me
And I couldn't help but think of the way things used to be.

She was the one that I'd wanted for all times
And each night I'd spend prayin' that God would make her mine
And if he'd only grant me this wish I wished back then
I'd never ask for anything again.

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Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers
Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs
That just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care
Some of god's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

She wasn't quite the angel that I remembered in my dreams
And I could tell that time had changed me
Inn her eyes too it seemed
We tried to talk about the old days
There wasn't much we could recall
I guess the lord knows what he's doin' after all.

And as she walked away and I looked at my wife
And then and there I thankedd the good lord
For the gifts in my life.

*chorus*
Some of god's greatest gifts are all too often unanswered...
Some of god's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

• Against The Grain
• Ain't Going Down
• Alabama Clay
• American Honky-tonk Bar Association
• Anonymous
• Burning Bridges
• Callin' Baton Rouge
• Cold Shoulder
• Cowboy Bill
• Cowboys & Angels
• Dixie Chicken
• Every Now & Then
• Everytime That It Rains
• Face to Face
• Friends in Low Places
• I Know One
• I've Got a Good Thing Going
• If Tomorrow Never Comes
• In Lonesome Dove
• Ireland
• It's Midnight Cinderella
• Kickin' & Screamin'
• Learning to Live Again
• Much Too Young
• New Way to Fly
• Night Rider's Lament
• Nobody Gets Off in This Town
• Not Counting You
• One Night a Day
• Papa Loved Mama
• Rodeo
• Rollin'
• Same Old Story
• Shameless
• She's Every Woman
• Something With a Ring to It
• Somewhere Other Than The Night
• Standing Outside The Fire
• That Ol' Wind
• That Summer
• The Beaches of Cheyenne
• The Change
• The Cowboy Song
• The Dance
• The Fever
• The Night I Called The Old Man Out
• The Night Will Only Know
• The Old Stuff
• The Red Strokes
• The River
• The Thunder Rolls
• This Aint Tennessee
• To Make You Feel My Love
• Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House
• Unanswered Prayers
• Uptown Down-home Good Ol' Boy
• Victim of The Game
• Walking After Midnight
• We Bury The Hatchet
• We Shall Be Free
• What She's Doing Now
• Which One of Them
• Wild Horses
• Wolves