Celie's Curse

[Mister]

No! No! Leave me alone

No! Get out! Get out of

Leave me alone, you

Goddamn, get out of my house

No! Get away from me

No! Stop! Help!

What you lookin' at?

Bunch of damn fools

[Ladies]

He always been cruel

[Mister]

Celie cursed me!

[Ladies]

Never cared for nothin'

[Ensemble]

Treat everybody like animals

Treat animals like dirt

[Woman]

Beat his chir'ren

[Other Woman]

Beat his horse

[Ensemble]

Never did one kind thing for nobody

[Mister]

Yes I did

[Ensemble]

Not one thing

[Mister]

I did!

You know what, I don't have to stay here

Worthless town, I can walk right down this road by myself

Never see nobody I know ever again

[Mister]

Nobody to put up with

Nobody to mess with me

Nobody to push me around

Nobody to tell me what to do

Nobody to expect somethin' of me

Nobody to tell me who I am

Or who I ain't

[Mister]

Nobody!

[Ensemble]

He got nobody to blame but himself

[Mister]

I got plenty to blame

My daddy beat me for my own good, he say

My first wife got kilt when she run away

My kids is all fools

My crops is all dead

Only woman I love

Won't lie in my bed

A black man's life

Can't get any worse

'Less he wastin' away

Under Miss Celie's curse

So tell me how a man do good

When all he know is bad?

Harpo happy

What right he got to be happy?

Wife leave, girlfriend leave him, too

His mama died in his arms

Somebody tell me

How he keep findin'

So much good from so much bad?

His wife come back

His business fine

Everyone say

Harpo shine

For all they been through

They do just fine

Nothin' I say

Change people's mind about me

Ain't gon' be nothin' I say

Gon' be somethin' I do

Maybe all my good lie ahead of me

Ain't gon' be nothin' I say

Gon' be somethin' I do

Maybe everything I do

[Celie]

Dear Nettie, us never seen anything

As beautiful as Shug Avery house is Memphis

Is big and pink, and looks sorta

Like a barn except where you put the hay

Shug got bedrooms, and toilets

And a big ballroom where she

And her band sometimes work

My bedroom looks out over the creek

Couple of months ago Shug come home

From a roadtrip all bloated from eating bad food

She say she wanted me to make her some pants

That would fit her no matter what size she was