Brenda Russell - Celie's Curse lyrics

[Mister] (spoken) No! No! Leave me alone! No! Get out! Get out of– Leave me alone, you! Goddamn, get out of my house! No! Get away from me! No! Stop! Help! What you lookin' at? Bunch of damn fools [Ladies] (spoken) He always been cruel [Mister] (spoken) Celie cursed me! [Ladies] (spoken) Never cared for nothin' [Ensemble] (spoken) Treat everybody like animals Treat animals like dirt [Woman] (spoken) Beat his chir'ren [Other Woman] (spoken) Beat his horse [Ensemble] (spoken) Never did one kind thing for nobody [Mister] (spoken) Yes I did [Ensemble] (spoken) Not one thing [Mister] (spoken) I did! You know what, I don't have to stay here Worthless town, I can walk right down this road by myself Never see nobody I know ever again [Mister] Nobody to put up with Nobody to mess with me Nobody to push me around Nobody to tell me what to do Nobody to expect somethin' of me Nobody to tell me who I am Or who I ain't [Mister] (spoken) Nobody! [Ensemble] (spoken) He got nobody to blame but himself [Mister] I got plenty to blame My daddy beat me for my own good, he say My first wife got kilt when she run away My kids is all fools My crops is all dead Only woman I love Won't lie in my bed A black man's life Can't get any worse 'Less he wastin' away Under Miss Celie's curse So tell me how a man do good When all he know is bad? Harpo happy What right he got to be happy? Wife leave, girlfriend leave him, too His mama died in his arms Somebody tell me How he keep findin' So much good from so much bad? His wife come back His business fine Everyone say Harpo shine For all they been through They do just fine Nothin' I say Change people's mind about me Ain't gon' be nothin' I say Gon' be somethin' I do Maybe all my good lie ahead of me Ain't gon' be nothin' I say Gon' be somethin' I do Maybe everything I do [Celie] (spoken) Dear Nettie, us never seen anything as beautiful as Shug Avery house is Memphis Is big and pink, and looks sorta like a barn except where you put the hay Shug got bedrooms, and toilets, and a big ballroom where she and her band sometimes work My bedroom looks out over the creek Couple of months ago Shug come home from a roadtrip all bloated from eating bad food She say she wanted me to make her some pants that would fit her no matter what size she was...