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 [?]
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 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
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 girl 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
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