Our Prayer

Hey, sister
Whatcha gon' do?
Going down by the river
Gonna play with you
Papa don't like no screaming 'round here
No lip from no woman when they chug that beer

You're all grown up and pretty now
It's time for you to get married
Have one good year before you get big

I can't get married
I'm still in school
Who that man talking to pa?

Girl at church say
He looking for a new wife
Take care of his mean chirren

Well, I see where they get their mean from
Look at him!
Holding his whip like he got a horse waiting somewhere
You see any horse?

You don't wanna get married?

I wanna know how the world goes
How far is the moon?
How the sky changes color?
Hope I find out soon
What you want?

I wanna sit and do nothing
Make you a new dress
Hope my babies are happy
Someplace God will bless

Celie, get to work!

Ain't no need to discuss
It ain't worth a big fuss
Whatever come to us
Is in God's hands
When I lay me down to sleep
I will say my prayer
That God love me so deep
He will promise our souls to keep together
I'll say a prayer

Why you wanna know so much about tobacco?

I'm thinking 'bout planting it

You is not
Now, what you doing here?

I wanna marry Nettie
She's a sweet young girl

She too young

She's the cutest thing
In this whole world

She gon' be a teacher

Picture me in a schoolhouse
With my college degree
I can teach all my children
To spell Tennessee

You can have Celie, though
She too old to be livin' at home

Maybe I'll have a garden
Where birds come to sing
I don't want Celie
I'll know a finch from a sparrow
She ugly
Fix a broken wing

Wanna hear your birds sing
Wanna hear your school bell ring
No matter what life bring
Us in God's hands

Why don't you quit coming 'round here
And just go marry your Shug Avery?

Shug Avery!
Who Shug Avery?
Shug Avery!
She mister old girlfriend

Shug Avery not a child-raisin' woman
You know that
She the queen honeybee

She a low-down ho
Is what everybody say
You lookin' for another Shug Avery, better go to Memphis
All we got here is one pretty girl you'll never have
And one ugly girl can work like a man

I really want that girl

I told you no!

When I lay me down to sleep (I wanna marry Nettie)
I will say my prayer (she a sweet young gal)
That God love me so deep (she the sweetest thing)
He will promise our souls (in this whole wide world)
To keep together (I-)
I'll say a prayer (I really want that girl)

You want any kids?

Someday, I guess
I know you do

Doctor say I can't have no more kids
So I think God just want me to take care of you

We'll live in big houses
Put swings in the trees
Braid up your gray hair
In the cool of the breeze
And one day
Our children will sing

When I lay me down to sleep
I will say my prayer
That God love me so deep
He will promise our souls to keep
Together
I'll say a prayer
I'll say our prayer