Our Prayer [2015 Broadway Cast Recording]
Joaquina Kalukango, The Color Purple New Broadway Cast, Isaiah Johnson, Kevyn Morrow, Cynthia Erivo
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Hey, sista, whacha gon' do Goin' down by the river Gonna play with you Papa don't like no screamin' 'round here No lip from da woman when they chug that beer You 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 talkin' to Pa? Girl at church say he lookin' for a new wife to take care of his mean chirren Well I see where they get that mean from Look at him, holdin' his whip like he got a horse waitin' 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 nothin' Make you a new dress Hope my babies are happy Some place 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 say a prayer Why you wanna know so much about tobacco? I'm thinkin' 'bout plantin' it You is not Now what you doin' here? I wanna 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 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 She ugly Know a finch from a sparrow Fix a broken wing 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 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 whore, is what everybody say 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 I really want that girl I told you no! When I I wanna Lay me down to sleep Marry Nettie I will say my prayer She a sweet young girl That God love me so deep She da sweetest thing He will promise our souls In dis whole world To keep together I really I'll say a prayer 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
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Written by: Allee Willis, Brenda Gordon Russell, Stephen Bray
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