Our Prayer

[Nettie & Celie]

Hey, sister, what you gon' do

Going down by the river gonna play with you

Papa don't like no screamin' 'round here

No lip from the woman when they chug that beer

[Celie]

You all grown up and pretty now

It's time for you to get married

Have one good year before you get big

[Nettie]

I can't get married, I'm still in school

Who that man talkin' to Pa?

[Celie]

Girl at church say

He lookin' for a new wife to take care of his mean chirren

[Nettie]

Well I see where they get their mean from

Look at him, holdin' his whip like he got a horse waitin' somewhere

You see any horse?

[Celie]

You don't wanna get married?

[Nettie]

I wanna know how the world goes

How far is the Moon

How the sky changes color

Hope I find out soon

[Nettie]

What you want?

[Celie]

I wanna sit and do nothin'

Make you a new dress

Hope my babies are happy

Someplace God will bless

[Pa]

Celie! Get to work!

[Nettie]

Ain't no need to discuss

[Celie]

It ain't worth a big fuss

[Both]

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

[Pa]

Why you wanna know so much about tobacco?

[Mister]

I'm thinkin' 'bout plantin' it

[Pa]

You is not

Now what you doin' here?

[Mister]

I wanna marry Nettie

She a sweet young girl

[Pa]

She too young

[Mister]

She's the cutest thing

In this whole world

[Pa]

She gonna be a teacher

[Nettie]

Picture me in a schoolhouse

With my college degree

I can teach all my children

To spell Tennessee

[Pa]

You can have Celie, though

She too old to be livin' at home

[Celie]

Maybe I'll have a garden

Where birds come to sing

[Mister]

I don't want Celie

She ugly

[Celie]

Know a finch from a sparrow

Fix a broken wing

[Nettie]

I wanna hear your birds sing

[Celie]

Wanna hear your school bell ring

[Both]

No matter what life bring

Us in God's hands

[Pa]

Whyn't you quit comin' 'round here

Just go marry Shug Avery?

[Ensemble]

Shug Avery

[Nettie]

Who Shug Avery?

[Ensemble]

Shug Avery!

[Celie]

She Mister ol' girlfriend

[Mister]

Shug Avery not a child-raisin' woman

You know that

She the queen honeybee

[Pa]

She a low-down ho, is what everybody said

You lookin' for a new Shug Avery, you 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

[Mister]

I really want that girl

[Pa]

I told you no!

[Celie & Nettie] / [Mister]

When I lay me down to sleep/I wanna marry Nettie

I will say my prayer/She's a sweet young girl

That God love me so deep/She the cutest thing

He will promise our souls to keep/In this whole word

Together, I'll say a prayer/I really want that girl

[Celie]

You want any kids?

[Nettie]

Someday, I guess

I know you do

[Celie]

Doctor say I can't have no more kids

I think God just want me to take care of you

[Nettie]

We'll live in big houses

[Celie]

Put swings in the trees

[Nettie]

Braid up your gray hair

[Both]

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