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the color purple broadway cast - our prayer lyrics

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[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] (spoken)
you all grown up and pretty now
it’s time for you to get married
have one good year before you get big

[nettie] (spoken)
i can’t get married, i’m still in school
who that man talkin’ to pa?

[celie] (spoken)
girl at church say
he lookin’ for a new wife to take care of his mean chirren

[nettie] (spoken)
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] (spoken)
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] (spoken)
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] (spoken)
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] (spoken)
why you wanna know so much about tobacco?

[mister] (spoken)
i’m thinkin’ ’bout plantin’ it

[pa] (spoken)
you is not
now what you doin’ here?

[mister]
i wanna marry nettie
she a sweet young girl

[pa] (spoken)
she too young

[mister]
she’s the cutest thing
in this whole world

[pa] (spoken)
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] (spoken)
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] (spoken)
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] (spoken)
whyn’t you quit comin’ ’round here
just go marry shug avery?

[ensemble]
shug avery

[nettie] (spoken)
who shug avery?

[ensemble]
shug avery!

[celie] (spoken)
she mister ol’ girlfriend

[mister] (spoken)
shug avery not a child-raisin’ woman
you know that
she the queen honeybee

[pa] (spoken)
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] (spoken)
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] (spoken)
you want any kids?

[nettie] (spoken)
someday, i guess
i know you do

[celie] (spoken)
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

- the color purple broadway cast lyrics

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