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?
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.