Our Prayer

Our Prayer - Cynthia Erivo/Joaquina Kalukango/Isaiah Johnson/Kevyn Morrow/Brenda Russell/Allee Willis/Stephen Bray

Hey sister what you gon' do

Going down by the river gonna play with you

Papa don't like no screaming round here

No lip from the 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 their 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

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

Why you wanna know so much about tobacco

I'm thinking 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

Know a finch from a sparrow

She ugly

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 coming 'round here

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 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

I really want that girl

I told you no

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

You want any kids

Someday I guess

I know you do

Doctor say I can't have no more kids

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