Girls: Hold on, hold on! Hold on, hold on! Deloris: Started my life In a worn torn dress that somebody threw out. I knew the way it felt to always live in doubt, to be without the simple things. So afraid my could see the guilt in me. So I got a good job in the city. Working for the man ev´ry night and day. But I never lost a minute of sleeping Worrying ´bout the way the things Might have been. I was a devil with a blue dress, blue dress, blue dress. Devil with the blue dress on. I was a ho! Sugar pie, honey bunch, you know that I love you. I can´t help myself. I love you and nobody else. Wait! Oh, yeah, wait a minute Mister postman. Wait! Wait Mister Postman. All: Mister Postman, look and see If there´s a letter in your bag for me. I´ve been waiting such a long, long time. Deliver the letter. The sooner the better! She wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini. Stop! In the name of love. Deloris: But my mama told me, "You better shop around.". All: Whoo! Girls the hustle! Do the hustle! Deloris: But it wasn´t enought, baby. Because I needed cash. I needed All: Money, money, money, money. Money! Money, money, money, money. Deloris: I was a bad girl. Talking ´bout the sad girl. Freak out! Mister Big Stuff. Who do you think you are? Mister Big Stuff, you´re never gonna get my love. But he did! He got my coat, He got my love, He got my cousin pregnant, and when I tried to throw him out baby, you know what he did? He whipped out this great big… All: Shotgun. Shoot him ´fore he runs, now. Do the jerk, baby. Do the jerk now. Deloris: Hey, I had nowhere to run to, baby. Nowhere to hide. I had nowhere to run to,baby. Nowhere to hide Until Girls: Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelu! Deloris: Nothing you can say could tear me away From my God. Girls: My God. Deloris: Nothing you can do ´cause I´m stuck like glue to my God He may not be a movie star, but when it comes to be happy, we are. There´s not a man today Who could take me away from my Good. Girls: What´d you say? Deloris: There´s not a man today Who could take me away from… Girls & Nuns: I love Him. I love Him. I love Him. I love Him. I love Him. I love Him. Whoo! I will follow him, follow him wherever He may go. There isn´t an ocean too deep, a mountain so hight it can keep, keep me away. All: away from his love. Why? ´cause we are family. I got all my sisters with me. We are family. Get up ev´ry body and sing. We are family. I got all my sisters with me. We are family Get up ev´ry body Get up ev´ry body Get up ev´ry body and sing |