Our Prayer

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.
Who that man talkin' to pa?
He lookin' for a new wife take care of his mean chirren.
I want to marry nettie.
She a sweet young girl.
She too young.
She's the cutest thing
In this whole world.
She gonna be a teacher.
Picture me in a schoolhouse
With my college degree.
I could 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.
Know a finch from a sparrow,
Fix a broken wing.
I don't want celie. She ugly.
I wanna hear your birds sing.
Wanna hear your school bell ring.
No matter what life bring,
Us in god's hands.
Whyn't you quit comin' 'round here and just go marry your shug avery?
Who shug avery?
Shug avery!
She mister ol' 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 a new shug avery, you better go to memphis. All we got here is one
Pretty gal you can't never have, and one ugly gal
. . . That work like a man. I-i-i-i
I-i-i-i really want that girl.
I told you no!
When i i wanna
Lay me down to marry
Sleep, nettie.
I will she a
Say my prayer sweet young girl.
That god love
Me she the
So deep, sweetest thing
He will in this
Promise whole
Our souls wide world.
To keep together. I-i-i-i
I'll say a prayer i really want that girl.
You want any kids?
Someday, i guess.
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.