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The Color Purple (1985) "The Color Purple" is a critically acclaimed American movie released in 1985, directed by Steven

The Color Purple (1985)

"The Color Purple" is a critically acclaimed American movie released in 1985, directed by Steven Spielberg. Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, it tells the captivating story of Celie Johnson, a young African-American woman who endures abuse and struggles to find her own voice in the early 20th century rural South. The movie boasts a talented ensemble cast, including Whoopi Goldberg as Celie, Oprah Winfrey as Sofia, and Margaret Avery as Shug Avery. Their powerful performances bring depth and emotion to the characters' journeys of self-discovery, oppression, and triumph. If you're interested in experiencing the incredible sounds and emotions of this deeply moving film, you can play and download them here.

A baby boy called Adam, he took while I was sleeping...
A girl!
A kind of low humming. Then there was chopping and the sound of dragging.
A little milk for the baby. Yes, indeed.
A man!
A woman need to have a little fun, Harpo.
Africa!
Ahh!
Ahh!
Ahh! Shit!
Ain't cold enough.
Ain't hot enough.
Ain't nothing for you.
Ain't warm enough. How do you work this stove?
Ain't you got nothing better to do?
ALBERT: Celie!
ALBERT: Celie! Bring me a cool drink.
ALBERT: Hey, Shug! Write!
ALBERT: How come y'all standing out here. What you waiting on?
ALBERT: I love her as much as you, probably more.
ALBERT: Mm mm!
ALBERT: No, no. I'll make it myself.
ALBERT: No. Now, baby, don't be that way!
ALBERT: Now what's wrong with you?
ALBERT: Oh, no.
ALBERT: Sure. She be kin now.
ALBERT: Time to go.
ALBERT: What's with you? I was calling you for an hour!
ALBERT: Where's my black tie? I mean the yellow one with black in it!
ALBERT: Yeah, you know, Grady, we done had the best.
ALBERT: You're my kind of man!
Albert?
Albert.
All I know how to do is stay alive.
All my life I had to fight.
All Shug's children got the same daddy. I can vouch
All the evil, and all the love.
ALL: Come on.
Always have, always will.
Amen.
And anyway, you probably won't get this letter either.
And every day we smell smoke.
And God fixed her.
And he can drive you home to truth.
And I don't want to smell no goddamn stinking pipe, Albert!
And I seen a lot of suns going down
And it's possible for the Lord to drive you home.
And maybe she like it.
And no doubt impossible for you to believe.
And no doubt impossible for you to believe.
And not if he my man. You just a big old heifer! Ha, ha, ha.
And now God has sent me to watch over them...
And then one day, Sofia can't take it no more.
And then they say....
And they have been brought up in love.
And they's alive.
And vines and ferns and animals and noises...
And we sang.
And what you doing about it? Nothing.
And when I see'd you...
And when we all get together, we're going to whup your ass.
And when you're tired...
And you smell so good when I sit close to you. And your teeth....
And, Celie, Adam has a wife. Tashi.
Any more letters come?
Anything come for me?
April 1 8...
Are you saying it just want to be loved like it say in the Bible?
Baby, have I got a surprise for you. This'll make you all well.
Baby, look what I brought you.
Babylon ain't no far off place in the desert.
Be nice now.
Beat her.
Because honey this Shug Is feeling fine
Because I don't know y'all no more.
Because she scratched it out of my head when I was ailing.
Because she scratched it out of my head when I was ailing.
Been drinking.
Best preacher in the world.
Big, though.
BOTH: [SINGING] ♪ Me and you ♪ ♪ Us never part ♪
BOTH: It's a miracle, isn't it?
BOTH: Ready. One, two, three!
BOY 1 : Come on! Push! BOY 2: Hurry up! Hurry!
BOY 3: Come on, guys! BOY 4: Hurry up!
BOY 5: Shh! Shh!
Boy, what's the matter with you?
Boy, what's the matter with you?
BOY: Grandpa, I'm full. I'm not hungry anymore.
Building a jook joint.
BUSTER: Lord have mercy!
But dear God, I'm here!
But I calls her Olivia.
But I feels better now. I been staying with Albert and Celie.
But I never thought I had to fight in my own house!
But I say, I'll take care of you, with God's help.
But I tell you what. I can let you have Celie.
But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me!
But if this does not get to him...
But Nettie and my kids are coming home soon.
But Nettie, you flat out can't have. Not now, not never.
But singing the blues
But the worst is yet to be told.
But then, Nettie write that my real daddy lynched.
But we had her!
But, Celie, my dear, sweet sister...
Butter, butter, butter.
Bye, Emma! Bye, Ruby!
Bye, Sofia! Bye!
Calm down.
Can I hold her?
Can Nettie stay with us for a spell?
Can't a man dance with his wife?
Can't even keep a oven hot!
Can't even keep a stove burning good all day.
Can't you pump that a little faster?
Celie is ugly but she works hard, and she can Iearn.
Celie, get me some lemonade.
Celie, I'm going out for a spell, and I want my supper when I get back!
Celie, my boy be needing his supper.
Celie, this Shug Avery, a friend of the family. Fix up the spare room.
Celie, you got the ugliest smile this side of Creation.
CELIE: A R M. Arm. Yes, Celie!
CELIE: Bye, Clarence!
CELIE: Cool drink?
CELIE: Dear Celie, the reason why I am in Africa is because...
CELIE: Dear God, after all these years...
CELIE: Dear God, after many years, they let Sofia out of jail...
CELIE: Dear God, Harpo be in love with a girl called Sofia.
CELIE: Dear God, he come home with a girl from around the town called Gray.
CELIE: Dear God, I seen my baby girl.
CELIE: Dear God, I'm 1 4 years old.
CELIE: Dear God, today was a peculiar day.
CELIE: For the next eight or ten months...
CELIE: He talk about your teeth?
CELIE: Hey, Shug
CELIE: Hush now!
CELIE: I ain't heard so much racket since before Sofia left.
CELIE: I can't move.
CELIE: I don't cry.
CELIE: I just stand back and wait to see what the wall gonna look like.
CELIE: I think she mine.
CELIE: Kettle. K E T T L E.
CELIE: Nettie!
CELIE: Next time, I'll put a little Shug Avery pee in his glass...
CELIE: Old Mister talking trash about Shug.
CELIE: She said she write, but she never write.
CELIE: Shug say she going back to Memphis.
CELIE: Sleeve. S L E E V E. Sleeve.
CELIE: Sofia beat on Harpo.
CELIE: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
CELIE: Two ofthem worked long way past supper.
CELIE: Way back here? Yeah!
CELIE: We could write.
CELIE: We'll both learn real hard before he breaks us apart.
CELIE: Yes, ma'am.
Celie!
Celie!
Celie!
Celie!
Celie!
Celie!
Celie!
Celie!
Celie!
Celie! Ain't that razor sharpened yet?
Celie! Damn it! Get here!
Celie! Help me get her in the house.
Celie! My boy wants supper. The kitchen needs cleaning. The cow needs milking.
Celie! Nettie! Come back to the house now.
Celie.
Celie.
Celie.
Celie. Come on.
Child, we're going to get you a little milk.
CHILDREN: Left, right! Left, right! Left, right!
CHORUS LEADER: Sing God Is Trying To Tell You Something.
CHORUS: ♪ God is trying to tell you something ♪
CHORUS: ♪ God is trying to tell you something ♪ ♪ Maybe ♪
CHORUS: ♪ Maybe God is trying to tell you ♪ ♪ Something right now ♪
CHORUS: ♪ Speak to me ♪ SHUG: ♪ Won't you speak to me ♪
CHORUS: ♪ Speak, Lord ♪ SHUG: ♪ Oh, speak, Lord ♪
CHORUS: ♪ Speak, my Lord ♪
CHORUS: ♪ Yeah ♪
Come help me get ready! Come on! I'll be late!
Come on, girl. I'm waiting for you.
Come on, I don't want to have to come in after you.
Come on, Miss Celie. Let's go to the car.
Come on, now.
Come on, time to go. Time to go now. Come on!
Come on! Let's go! Ha, ha!
Come upstairs with me.
Confused.
CONGREGATION [SINGING]: ♪ If you live right ♪ ♪ Heaven belongs to you ♪
CONGREGATION: Amen!
CONGREGATION: Amen!
Could be. Could be not. Who's to say?
Cut my neck and I'll get you by the ears.
Damn him.
Damn women.
Damn, Sofia! I'll come down when I'm good and ready!
Damn!
Dear God, he act like he can't stand me no more.
Dear Lord, we ask your blessing on our brother, Harris!
Did I ever ask you for anything? Did I ever ask you for anything?
Did you ever cook here?
Did you hear what I said? I'm gonna drive you home.
Do good in Chicago, Shug!
Do his business?
Do you know what a jungle is?
Do you take this man to be your lawful wedded husband?
Don't be scared. Say it, girl.
Don't do it. Don't trade places with what I been through.
Don't let them run over you. Show them who's got the upper hand.
Don't she look Iike an Olivia to you?
Don't think I'll let my boy marry you just because you in the family way.
Don't touch me! Leave me alone! Don't touch me!
Eggs. Skillet. Why you put the pots up here?
Ever notice how trees do everything to get attention that we do...
Every evening after he leave the field...
Every hut that lay in the road's path was leveled.
Everybody call him Buster. He's a good friend of the family.
Everything she learns, she shares with Tashi. Sound familiar?
Everything you done to me...
Fine with me.
For the next eight...
Gal, what did you say to Miss Millie?
Georgie!
Get away from me!
Get my children out of here!
Get off my boy!
Get off my land!
Get off my land! You ain't welcome no more.
Get on out here and do me right now! Get on out here!
Get that thing to make me something to eat.
Get the molasses out of your ass!
Get these chickens back in the coop...
Get yourself a young girl. You heed your daddy's advice.
Girl child ain't safe in a family of mens.
Girl, I'd drink your bath water!
Girls, your mama got supper.
Go clean my saddle.
Go in there, try them on and you'll see.
Go on.
Go to my room and put them in order by the postmark.
God, dear God! Sheriff, help me!
God's children and Satan's children.
Got their legs open for every Tom, Dick and Harpo.
Got their legs open for every Tom, Dick and Harpo.
Grady drive like a fool. I thought the police would get us.
GRADY: I like you too!
GRADY: It's true. Yeah, we done had the best.
Ha, ha!
Harpo run the doors and windows from the creek to here.
Harpo, ain't that horse saddled?
Harpo, come on down here. I need you to hold this baby.
Harpo, didn't I tell you to clean my saddle?
Harpo, don't you move one step.
HARPO: Ain't you gonna get it for me? What's the matter with you?
HARPO: It's time to go now. Time to go home.
HARPO: Let's dance.
HARPO: Pa! Who that, Pa? Who this?
HARPO: That's a lie! CELIE: A Iittle truth in it.
HARPO: You never seen this before.
Harpo!
Harpo!
Harpo! Don't you run from me, boy!
Harpo! Get here! Come here, boy!
Harpo?
Harpo.
Have a fine day, Mr. Huntley! And keep the plate!
Have you ever thought about going to Mars?
He ain't changed a lick.
He ain't worth it.
He beat me for not being you.
He can fix it for you if you trust him.
He coming back soon.
He don't never ask me how I feel.
He gonna be just fine.
He just climb on top of me and do his business.
He knows because he the only one!
He left it to your mama.
He left me the money though.
He never ask me about myself.
He says, Greetings.
He says, Welcome.
He started kicking. Busted my eye and my lip.
He took all the diapers when he took her.
He was brought up by hand.
He young and limited. Pretty gal Iike you could put anything over on him.
He'd try everything. You know how he is.
Hear that, Miss Shug?
Hell no.
Her daddy will be so pleased.
Her husband's named Samuel.
Her own daddy won't have nothing to do with her.
Here. Go to your daddy.
Hey, boy.
Hey, Celie! Get here!
Hey, Harpo!
Hey, Pa.
Hey, Pa.
Hey, Shug!
Hey, welcome to Harpo's! I'm Harpo.
Hey, you'll be back! Ha ha ha!
Hi, my name is Emma.
How do, Mr. Peters? Look at me, I'm driving.
How does he know that?
How long you had your little girl?
How you been?
How you doing? How you feel?
How you expect her to mind? Heh, heh.
How'd he die?
How's that, Pa?
How's that?
Hush, you old fool! Always meddling in somebody's business.
Hyah! Come on, come on. Hyah!
I ain't heard such nonsense in all my life.
I ain't listening to you. Goodbye, Pa! Bye!
I ain't never figured I'd wear pants. Not to mention the things Miss Celie made.
I ain't never going back there!
I am sure Albert is still the only one...
I been needing so many curtains, but I ain't had time.
I been sick. Maybe you heard.
I bet you think I don't know nothing
I brung you some fresh baked cookies made in my stove!
I can live with them the rest of my life if I want to.
I can make it go the right way. Come on. Ohh!
I can smell the rain coming.
I can take care of my baby myself. Nice visiting.
I can't believe you did that!
I can't let you have Nettie. She too young.
I can't ride in a car with some strange colored man.
I come to hear Miss Shug sing and to see what a nice place you built.
I curse you! Until you do right by me...
I declare....
I didn't see nothing. But I know something's there.
I do!
I do.
I don't know about no....
I don't know her either.
I don't know how to fight.
I don't know.
I don't need no weak Iittle boy...
I don't need you to tell me how to take care of me and my baby.
I don't never want you messing with that mailbox!
I don't see it! Where's my suit pin?
I don't think he killed my baby boy.
I don't want you showing Emma all your business.
I feel that once I see her eyes, my feet can let go...
I fixed that mailbox so I can tell if it be messed with! Understand?
I got children. My children are Iiving in Africa.
I got nobody to watch over my young ones.
I got some Tennessee tobacco, cured with whiskey.
I got this fabric from Washington. I wanted to make you a pair of pants.
I got to go to school.
I got to have somebody right now.
I got two children...
I got up and looked at the sky.
I got what you call a passion for him.
I guess I just raised you wrong.
I had a blue one....
I had to fight my brothers.
I had to fight my daddy, I had to fight my uncles.
I hate this tie! It don't go with nothing I got on!
I hear she's got that nasty women's disease.
I hear you been spending more time at Harpo's and less in the fields.
I heard he sold it to a preacher and his wife.
I hope you think That you're something too
I Iove you...
I just couldn't keep him off me. Could I stay here with you?
I just vibrated.
I keep hoping he'll find somebody to marry.
I know he a bully...
I know it was her.
I know what it like to want to sing and have it beat out of you.
I know what it like, Miss Celie.
I know you can't say nothing to me anymore because things are so different.
I know you think I'm dead...
I know your daddy throwed you out. Ready to live in the street.
I know your daddy throwed you out. Ready to live in the street.
I knowed there is a God, and one day I was going to get to come home.
I laid there thinking about Nettie while he on top of me.
I like the black one.
I like you, boy!
I love Shug Avery.
I love you and I'm not dead.
I loves Harpo.
I may even be ugly.
I meant to talk to some of the shopkeepers about it.
I met your daddy On the corner the other day
I move good for an old man.
I need me a man! You hear?
I need something to eat!
I need you to sit on my suitcase. Albert!
I never asked you for nothing! Not even for your sorry ass hand in marriage!
I remember the day I was in the store with Miss Millie.
I said I's married now.
I seen him looking at my little sister.
I seen them coming way up the road.
I should have locked you up! Just let you out to work!
I started taking driving lessons. Did you see me out there?
I stitch a lot of little flowers and stars too.
I stitch Olivia on all the seat of her diapers.
I tell Harpo when I'm fussing, Leave me alone!
I tell you the truth! It is!
I thank you, sir.
I think you beautiful.
I thought it was Squeak.
I told her the Olinka don't believe in educating girls.
I used to stand right over there watching you.
I want Albert to learn how to drive it.
I want to introduce y'all to my friend. Henry Broadnax is his name.
I want to know you, Mama.
I want to marry your Nettie.
I was feeling real down. I was feeling mighty bad.
I was plowing the north field and the mule went crazy.
I was sitting on the porch reading to the kids...
I will drive myself back.
I won't! I will! I will! I do.
I wonder what it's like.
I'll ask my sister Odessa to squeeze in.
I'll do anything for you! Let her stay!
I'll get it hot. I'll show you how to make it hot.
I'll get my mail. I'm expecting an agreement from Memphis.
I'll get you!
I'll take right good care of your Nettie.
I'm busy!
I'm coming, Shug!
I'm driving.
I'm fixing to sing.
I'm getting to it. I'm getting to it.
I'm going to miss you too.
I'm going with Shug.
I'm gonna go with her. This is my only chance to break from Mr. Jail.
I'm keeping my eyes on you
I'm living with my sister and her husband.
I'm poor, black.
I'm so glad to see you!
I'm something
I'm very pleased to meet you.
I's follow her everywhere, want to go where she go.
I's getting real tired of this cat.
I's going to miss you.
I's married now! I's a married woman!
I've always been a good girl.
I've always been good to you people!
I've always gone out of my way for coloreds!
I've been writing to you over the years...
I've got it. Top of the H. Here we go.
I've heard so much about you! Feels like we old friends!
If he hadn't been your boy, he might have been a halfway decent man.
If I was ever going to have a husband, he'd been it. But he weak.
If I was to wait for Albert, I'd wait till Christmas.
If she my baby, her name Olivia.
If you hadn't tried to rule over Sofia, white folks wouldn't have got her.
If you like.
In between the beatings, the children keep coming.
In the cooler, on the shelf.
Iron.
Is it the right side or the left side? The left side?
Is there a Ietter from Nettie?
Is this the right vest for my suit?
It be like when you have a way of doing stuff the same way all the time.
It don't look like that to me.
It finally reached the cassava fields nine months ago.
It has been a long time since I had time to write, but always...
It still ain't hot enough!
It sure is nice...
It was that mule, Old Joey. Old Joey, the mule.
It'd kill your mama.
It's a little late this year.
It's all right.
It's been a pleasure meeting all of you. Goodbye.
It's gonna rain on your head!
It's in the cooler, on the shelf.
It's just like my sign say:
It's right here! Just a few hundred yards from this holy place.
It's Shug.
It's time for me to get away from you and enter Creation.
It's time for us to go.
It's time to move on.
Jar. J A R. Jar.
Jesus!
Jook joint's supposed to be way back in the woods.
Just don't make me wait too long, Harpo.
Just look at those eyes.
Just pray for us, Celie.
Just sitting here drinking, ruining your life.
Just thought I'd stop and say hello.
Kept him up so he said he wasn't going to work.
KIDS: I do!
Last time I saw that kind of hat was at my mama's funeral.
Learning different languages.
Let her stay!
Let her stay. Please let her stay.
Let me know what's happening to me.
Let me see her again.
Let's see what we have here.
Let's us drink to having some Shug.
Like everything I see, she's seeing.
Like I said, fine with me.
Like more us than us is ourself.
Like white people at home who don't want black people to learn.
Look at that! Look at that!
Look at that! That's the cutest little face I ever saw. Give me some sugar.
Look at the dirt on it. This don't look like it's clean.
Look at them trees.
Look, I'm driving!
Looks like Albert brought his maid.
Looks like you got yourself in trouble.
Lord, have mercy! Firemen ain't gonna get it, somebody call the Iaw!
Lord, look at who's here. It's Miss Celie.
M I S T E R period.
Made him sick, Lord It made him well
Made him some eyes Just to lose on the ground
Made my life here hell.
Make sure you close that curtain.
Make yourself useful, Harpo. Hush now, honey.
Mama, do the Lordy, Lord
Mama, why are you crying?
Mama!
Mama!
MAN 1 : Right, see you.
MAN 2: Right. SHUG: Oh, yeah.
MAN: Good night, y'all.
MAN: Hey! Watch it!
MAN: How are you doing today? Good to see you. Hello.
MAN: Mrs. Millie! Whoa, whoa!
MAN: Yes, ma'am.
Maybe God is trying to tell you something Right now
Maybe she dead.
Maybe somebody will let you work on their railroad.
Maybe sweep out the caboose.
Maybe you can give me a sign.
Maybe.
MAYOR: Millie, let's leave them folks alone.
Me and Shug, I smile.
Millie, always going on over the colored.
MILLIE: Honey, let me see you. Look at you, you're so sweet.
MILLIE: I can do it. I can put it in reverse.
MILLIE: I've been wondering about starting a fund for the colored children.
MILLIE: Look! Aren't they cute?
MILLIE: What am I gonna do about the car?
Mind your own goddamn business. I feel just fine. Just had to eat.
Miss Celie, it sure is good to see you.
Miss Celie, we got ourselves some new curtains I want to put in the bedroom.
Miss Celie, why you always covering up your smile?
Miss Millie, what's the matter?
Mister have to call and tell them to shut up the racket.
Mister say he want to have a look at her.
Mister.
Mister.
Mm!
More than anything, God love admiration.
Morning, Mr. Johnson.
Move up. He won't bite.
Mr. Samuel.
Mr. Samuel. Who he?
My children need feeding.
My children, not my sister and brother.
My God, the dead has arisen.
My heart say she mine.
My husband's waiting.
My Iife's already ruined.
My job is to love her and take her where she want to go. Right?
My little girl looks like she fretting over something.
My little sister, Nettie, has got a man always looking at her.
My mama marry this dead man two years after my real daddy dead.
My mother.
My pa loved me.
My pa still loves me...
My shirt needs mending. My pants need fixing. My shoes need shining.
My Shug gonna be here and everything gonna be the way it should.
Needs to be taken down a peg or two.
NETTIE & CELIE [SINGING]: ♪ Me and you, us never part ♪
Nettie and your kids? Woman, you talking crazy.
NETTIE: And these?
NETTIE: At first, there was the faintest sound of movement in the forest.
NETTIE: Can you read good? I can't say that I do.
NETTIE: Dear Celie, the white man is building a road.
NETTIE: He says, This is the day of his dreams.
NETTIE: I just couldn't keep him off me.
NETTIE: I wrote a letter to you almost every day on the ship.
NETTIE: I'll go to school for both of us.
NETTIE: No! No! No!
NETTIE: Oh, Nettie, you have such nice skin...
NETTIE: Olinka is four days march through the bush from the harbor.
NETTIE: Systematic. CELIE: What's systematic mean?
NETTIE: We're up at 5:00 for a breakfast of millet, porridge, fruit, then morning classes.
NETTIE: Yes!
Nettie!
Nettie!
Nettie!
Nettie!
Nettie!
Nettie.
Nettie.
Never knowed a child to come out right unless there's a man around.
Nice, little, young girl clean up the house, iron your shirts
No low life's gonna run me around
No place to stop. But here us is! Well, how are you?
No such a thing.
No twister, Gonna steal your stuff away
No, I ain't seen them in about eight years.
No, Miss Sofia!
No, Miss Sofia! No!
No, most time I pretend I ain't even there.
No, not vain. Just wanting to share a good thing.
No, sir, I ain't living in no streets.
No, sir.
No, sir. Ain't no fist touched my face. No, sir.
No, thank you.
No, you stay right here, Harpo.
No!
No!
No! No!
No! No! No!
No! No! No!
No! Please!
No.
No.
No.
No. Probably just some people lost their way.
Nobody can get to them.
Nobody here to greet your pa?
Nobody's crazy enough to marry you.
Not if she left him.
Not since their mammy did it.
Nothing but death can keep me from her!
Nothing but death can keep me from her!
Nothing can do it better than a good beating.
Nothing. I never asked you for nothing!
Now every Sunday evening, here come Mister.
Now get my shave and don't keep me waiting!
Now giddyup! Giddyup!
Now God made him an elephant Made him stout
Now he's a funny mistreater, A robber and a cheater
Now I only write at Christmas and Easter...
Now let me see you. How can a pair of pants that fits Sofia fit me?
Now listen to me. I know just what you need.
Now us never be apart.
Now, after two months during which I or the children...
Now, I got two children by my daddy.
Now, put some more bubbling oil in this tub.
Now, she be a big girl.
Now, somewhere is my dining room.
Oh, but trust me
Oh, Celie.
Oh, girl, you need a smiling lesson.
Oh, Lordy, Lord!
Oh, Miss Celie, I feels Iike singing!
Oh, Miss Celie, that was just the salt and sugar.
Oh, Miss Sofia, it's so good to have you home.
Oh, my. That was exciting, wasn't it?
Oh, no! Oh!
Oh, scuffling I been up that lonesome road
Oh, shit.
Oh, sister, have I got news for you
Oh, sister, we're two of a kind
Oh, sister, we're two of a kind
Oh, yes.
Oh!
Oh! Miss Celie!
Ohh! I'm driving!
Ohh.
OLD MISTER: Hey, boy! Here, boy!
Old Sofia home now. Sofia home.
Olivia and Adam are with me...
Olivia and Adam.
Olivia.
On my first sight of the Africa coast...
On top of me.
On your way.
One size fit all.
Over my dead body!
Pa, not Pa.
PA: Celie, Mister want another look at you.
Pauline.
Pie's in the pantry. Women need to be left alone sometimes.
Please, please, please!
Please! No!
Please...
Plus, I hear all her children's got different daddies.
Poor Sofia, stuck with Miss Millie for the rest of her life.
Pop, this here is Sofia.
PREACHER [SINGS]: ♪ Tell her something ♪
PREACHER: It is therefore not to be entered into lightly or unadvisedly...
PREACHER: Now, Sofia.
PREACHER: There's only two kinds of children in this world.
Pull up a chair. Have a cold drink.
Put your head back.
Remember your name
Sanctified, religious and very good to me.
Sat in that jail till I near about done rot to death.
Say thank you now.
Say what?
See what kind of colors Shug's gonna put on there now.
September. Yeah, September be a good time to go off in the world.
Set up a fund so they could have some toys and some clothes, a toy or two.
Shake your shimmy, girl! Come on! Show me your stuff!
She ain't even clean.
She ain't fresh, but I expect you know that.
She be almost my age, but they getting married now.
She be seven months on the fifteenth.
She best leave you alone.
She black as tar...
She ended up being Miss Millie's maid after all.
She got spunk and can talk to anybody. She can stand up and be noticed.
She is sharp, Celie.
She looked just like me and my daddy.
She oldest and should marry first.
She plays with Olivia after school.
She said only death could keep her from me.
She'll be back. Shug got talent. She can sing.
She's a lot better than that first wife you married.
She's scared.
She's spoiled, twice.
Shit.
Should've married her when I had a chance.
Show me some teeth.
Show me that pretty smile.
SHUG [SINGING]: ♪ Sister, you've been on my mind ♪
Shug Avery done set the population of Hartwell County a new high.
SHUG: ♪ I wanna praise your name ♪
SHUG: ♪ Maybe God ♪ CHORUS: ♪ Maybe God ♪
SHUG: ♪ No wonder why ♪ CHORUS: ♪ And you wonder why ♪
SHUG: ♪ Something's gone wrong ♪ CHORUS: ♪ Something has gone wrong ♪
SHUG: ♪ Speak to me, Lord ♪
SHUG: ♪ Yeah ♪ CHORUS: ♪ Can't sleep at night ♪
SHUG: Albert!
SHUG: Celie, get in the car. Get in the car.
SHUG: I told you, I don't want nothing!
SHUG: I's married now!
SHUG: There is so much to tell you...
SHUG: There something you got to say?
SHUG: This doesn't look nothing Iike me.
SHUG: What you staring at? Never seen a naked woman before?
SHUG: Yes, ma'am? I ain't that old.
Shug! Shug, I'm coming!
Shut up!
Shut up! It's bad luck for a woman to laugh at a man!
Sister, you've been on my mind
Sister, you've been on my mind
Slip you in the dozens Your pappy's, your cousin
Slip you in your dozens Your papa's, your cousin
So good.
So I call her Ole Livia.
So let me tell you something, sister
So sad, just like me.
So shake your shimmy, sister
So what you gonna do? Hire yourself to farm?
Sofia home now. Just hush up!
Sofia is a pretty name, huh? Sofia, Sofia, Sofia!
Sofia thinks too much of herself.
Sofia, I need apples, raisins, cinnamon, currants, lemons...
Sofia, I'm gonna drive you home tomorrow.
Sofia, Sofia. That sure is a pretty name.
SOFIA: Come on now. Come on.
SOFIA: Glad I came back just in time.
SOFIA: Harpo says I spend too much money.
SOFIA: Harpo, I declare, you is slow today!
SOFIA: Hell no.
SOFIA: Ho, ho, Harpo. Where will you wear them britches?
SOFIA: I ain't in no trouble.
SOFIA: I believes I want me some of this here.
SOFIA: I had enough bad luck to keep me laughing the rest of my life.
SOFIA: I know you don't believe it, but I used to live here.
SOFIA: Jack will drive you home, Miss Millie.
SOFIA: Maybe you ought to see him home.
Sometime his friend Swain come by to help.
Sometimes a man just needs to be left alone.
SQUEAK: How you feeling, Miss Sofia?
STORE CLERK: How are you today?
Sure ain't nobody in the fields, that's for sure.
Swain! Ahh!
Take off your coat.
Take out her slop jar, maybe cook her food. You ain't even that good a cook.
Take your hat?
Tashi, this is my sister, Celie.
Tashi. Come.
Tell me the truth.
Thank you.
That sure is, Buster. Right, honey. You got it.
That way I have more time with my children.
That's a shame.
That's her.
That's my business!
That's my own baby crying. Lord.
That's real pretty.
That's right. Time to go now.
That's what it feel like.
That's your mama.
The fields are overgrown, the animals ain't tended to...
The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly
The jail you planned for me is the one you gonna rot in.
The lady you met in town is named Corrine.
The left.
The living room has already got itself some flowers.
The longer I'm married to you, the slower and dumber you get.
The mail.
The morning after the road was done, as far as Olinka was concerned...
The new mule had it on. Joey, had it. I couldn't get it from him.
The older children are used to coming to the mission school.
The reverend Mr. Samuel.
The road builders didn't deviate an inch from the head man's plan.
The smaller ones are not.
The song I'm about to sing...
The song I'm about to sing...
The way you looked in your blue suit. Girls cutting their eyes at you.
The way you'd make your voice rise and fall when you turned a phrase.
The woman that should have been your mammy.
Their only sorrow in the beginning was...
Then Harpo beat on Sofia.
Then my mama died...
Then the scent. Some days there's smoke.
Then they say...
There is a little African girl called Tashi.
There you go.
There's so many of them.
They be fighting and bleeding and throwing up on the floor...
They call it the red planet. Does it look red?
They don't know if we're American, African, or missionary.
They got it.
They have instructions to continue the road for another 30 miles...
They just be marching, like going to war.
They with my ma and pa.
They'll turn out better than these fools you never tried to raise.
They're all boys. Olivia's the only girl.
They're all boys. Olivia's the only girl.
Things are going to change around here.
This got burnt, but the eggs are just the way you like them.
This grease for slopping hogs! It ain't for no hair!
This here's my wedding present. Brand new.
This house ain't been cleaned good since my first wife died.
This house is a wreck!
This house is dead. There ain't no Shug, no children...
This is Grady.
This is my husband.
This is Olivia.
This is scandalous! A woman with children in a jook joint!
This life be over soon. Heaven lasts always.
This used to be my living room. That was my kitchen.
Those boys tried to attack me.
Those boys....
Time to go!
Time to go.
Time to go. Time to go.
To love, honor and cherish? Forsaking all others for him alone...
To Olivia right now, Tashi alone is Africa.
Tomorrow's Christmas! You can stay all day!
Trees and trees and then more trees on top of that.
Try feeding her, then fix up the mess you done made here.
Turn around.
Turn loose my goddamn hand!
Two days. Heh.
Two.
Uh huh.
Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail!
Us been driving all night.
Us sing and dance and holler...
Us two married Iadies now. Two married ladies, and hungry!
Want to go somewhere and can't.
WARDEN: Howdy, mayor. MAYOR: Howdy.
Wasn't satisfied till he made him a snout
Wasn't satisfied till he made him sick
Wasn't satisfied till he made his yes, yes Made his yes, yes, yes
Watch for me in the sunset.
Watch her head now. Be careful.
We could do one next year.
We had her!
We need some stability around here, that's for sure.
We need you a woman.
We sang our hearts out.
We sure ain't got a whole lot of time
We teach the children English, reading, writing...
We're fine.
Well, Harpo, you just going to have to try them on.
Well, I ain't never Iooked at the other one before.
Well, I ain't never Iooked at the other one before.
Well, if you'll excuse us, we got a train to catch.
Well, it's all yours now.
Well, let's do the shopping!
Well, let's toast it at somebody.
Well, look like somebody around here know how to treat a visitor.
Well, Miss Celie, I do believe it's time for me to go.
Well, nice talking to you.
What about me?
What am I gonna do about Sofia?
What are you going to do? You'll be back!
What did she say?
What did you say?
What food and clothes he get, you buy.
What food and clothes he get, you buy.
What happened with you and Pa?
What is it with this Shug Avery?
What life like for her? And why she sometime get so sad?
What should I do with it?
What us gonna do?
What would I do if I couldn't talk to you?
What would I do if I couldn't talk to you?
What you doing here?
What you doing that for?
What you doing?
What you doing?
What you doing?
What you got?
What you looking at?
What you think?
What's her name?
What's it say, Celie?
What's the matter with you? You crazy?
What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?
When Tashi can get away from her chores her mother assigns her...
When you free, me and the baby be waiting.
When your mama died, it passed on to you and your sister, Nettie.
When's the last time their hair was combed?
Where they at?
Where's my blue Oh, here it is.
Which one? The black one or the blue one?
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are? You fat ******!
Who do?
Who gives a damn? Boy, you going to let this nappy haired gal sit here...
Who her daddy?
Who the daddy?
Who this woman?
Who this woman?
Who you think you is? You can't curse nobody. Look at you!
Whoa, whoa.
Whoa. Whoa. Whoop, whoop.
Whoo!
Whoo! Isn't that fun?
Whoo.
Whoop. Time to go.
Why can't Tashi come to school? she asks me.
Why can't Tashi come to school? she asks me.
Why he do that?
Why I need to marry Harpo? He living here with you.
Why? Why?
Whys you call her Olivia when that ain't her name?
Wives is like children.
WOMAN: This is going to be a happy Christmas!
WOMAN: Yes, ma'am.
Wonder if she's safe.
Wood. Wood. Wood. Wood.
Would you Iike to work for me? Be my maid?
Write!
Y'all was rotten kids. You was. You was rotten kids!
Ya cha cha cha cha cha!
Yeah, but I still don't understand how.
Yeah, Celie. Everything want to be loved.
Yeah!
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Come on now! Come on.
Yes, indeed, Lord. I know something's coming.
Yes, ma'am, I reckon it was.
Yes, ma'am.
Yes, sir, Pa. Yes, sir. I's getting to it. I's getting to it.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir. I want five yards, sir.
Yes, their children sent by God are your children.
Yes. I'm making me and my little girl a new dress.
You a lowdown, dirty dog, that's what's wrong.
You ain't going nowhere. This is my jook joint.
You ain't going nowhere. This is my jook joint.
You ain't got it in you to understand.
You ain't never coming back here!
You ain't never seen a cow like this.
You ain't well.
You better not tell nobody but God.
You can catch a fish without a hook, girl.
You can catch a fish without a hook. You can make a blind man see.
You can do what you like. She won't make you feed or clothe it.
You can light a fire without a match.
You can stay all day!
You can vouch for nothing!
You children, get out of this yard. Go on home!
You crazy? He in the jook joint.
You do what I tell you.
You get away from me! Don't touch me!
You gonna buy anything or not, gal?
You got any children?
You got kids?
You got to fight, Celie. You got to.
You had her your way. I had her mine. Ha ha ha ha.
You has my sympathy.
You have to let them know who got the upper hand.
You haven't seen your children in a while.
You hear me call you?
You hear what I say? I'd die first, Celie.
You his wife?
You Iike sleeping with him?
You just one of the roosters, boy.
You keep on advising him like you doing.
You knew she was the only somebody in the world who loved me.
You know about that That he was funny that way
You know about that The elephant caught hell
You know I don't want to dance.
You know who this is.
You ought to wait for Mister.
You said it's our jook joint!
You satisfied? That's what you want?
You saying God is vain?
You see, Miss Celie, you gots a beautiful smile.
You should bash Mister's head open and think about Heaven later.
You sound like he going to the toilet on you.
You still love him?
You still ugly.
You sure is ugly!
You sure look pretty today, Nettie.
You told Harpo to beat me!
You took my sister Nettie away from me.
You want some supper?
You want that cloth or not? We got other customers.
You won't get a penny of my money. Not one thin dime!
You're black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman! You're nothing!
You're gonna have to leave here soon...
You're such good people. Salt of the earth.
You're too scared to open your mouth to people.
Young women no good these days.
Your ass is as slow as I ever seen it before.
Your boy.
Your children are so clean.
Your daddy ain't nothing but some dead horseshit.
Your dead body be just the welcome mat I need.
Your loving sister, Nettie.
Your pa love you?
Your real daddy owned this land and the house and the store.
Your sister's thinking about marriage.
♪ God ♪ CHORUS: ♪ Trying ♪
♪ God is trying to tell you something ♪ ♪ Speak to me, Lord ♪
♪ God is trying to tell you something ♪ WOMAN: ♪ Thank you, God ♪
♪ I was so blind ♪ CHORUS: ♪ Speak to me ♪
♪ I was so lost ♪ CHORUS: ♪ Speak, Lord ♪
♪ Is trying ♪ CHORUS: ♪ Tell you ♪
♪ Maybe God is trying to tell you something ♪ ♪ Right now ♪
♪ Night ♪ CHORUS: ♪ Can't sleep at night ♪
♪ Ohh ♪ CHORUS: ♪ Speak to me ♪
♪ Right now ♪ ♪ Right now ♪
♪ Right now ♪ CHORUS: ♪ Right now ♪
♪ Right now, right now ♪ ♪ Oh, God ♪
♪ Speak, Lord ♪ WOMAN: ♪ Oh, speak, Lord ♪
♪ Tell you something ♪ CHORUS: ♪ Maybe ♪
♪ Until you spoke to me ♪ CHORUS: ♪ Speak to me ♪
A woman need to be at home. Hey, I don't fight my woman's battles.
Ahh! ALBERT: Don't talk back to me.
All you fit to do is be Shug's maid. [WHISPERS] Albert, no.
Apples. Apples. A P P L E S. Apples.
Apples. Uh huh.
Be nice now. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah.
Butter? Butter! Huh?
Bye, Pa. Clean up this house.
Celie is coming with us. Say what?
Celie, don't forget to iron my shirt. Yes, sir.
Come on. Come on. Olivia.
Don't you know who I am? MAN 1 : Yes, ma'am.
Eggs. E G G S. Eggs. Uh huh.
Give these to Mr. Johnson. Yes, sir.
Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor. Good to see you.
Good luck, baby. SHUG: Aww. Ha, ha.
Goodbye, Pa. You listen to what I say.
Harpo, saddle my horse! HARPO: Yes, sir!
Harpo. Us gonna get married.
Have a nice Christmas. STORE CLERK: Same to you.
He was biting and kicking on it. Ow! Ow! Ow!
Hold on, here! No hold on, Harpo.
Home? Yes, home.
How are you? Fine, thank you.
How's the missus? She's doing real well.
I am Miss Millie! I'm the mayor's wife! MAN 2: Yes, ma'am.
I can't. It hurts her. Ow! Ow! Ow!
I want it. Shh. Celie.
I've always been good to you people! We know that, ma'am.
In the drawer. Is it on the shelf?
Iron. I R O N. Iron. Iron.
It's sugarbaby! CELIE: Hey, Shug!
Listen, Squeak My name ain't Squeak.
Mary what? Mary Agnes.
Now come the time for me to tell you. What?
Now get the hell out of my house! Please let her stay!
Now you close your eyes. Keep your eyes closed.
Nowhere. SOFIA: I know you're not! Look at you!
Oh, shit! This is my place! Come on.
Shelf. S H E L F. Uh huh.
Shug. Heh. Hot diggidy dog!
Sofia, I'll pick you up at 5:00. Yes, ma'am.
Sofia's been teaching me how to drive. That's wonderful.
Stop! Nettie!
Sure enough? Sure enough. Go on, now.
Sweetpea! MAN: Hold on there! Hold on.
Thank you. They look good. Bring the plate back tomorrow.
That's a hoof print. No, that look like a fist print.
This here's your new mammy. She ain't my mammy.
Uh huh. H A I R.
We went past the store. Top the H.
What? My name is Mary Agnes.
Where are your children? At home. Where are yours?
Where's Celie? BOY: Home fixing to shave Mister.
Write! What?
Yeah, because don't nobody love me. I love you.
Yes, sir? ALBERT: Celie, ain't that good comb...
You going where? SQUEAK: With Miss Celie and Shug.
You want something, gal? No, sir!
...'God Is Trying To Tell You Something', if you please.
...1 935.
...all growing up together...
...all we hear is chopping and scraping and dragging.
...all went down in a matter of hours.
...and a baby girl called Olivia...
...and Adam.
...and continue it on its present course right through the village of Olinka.
...and cuss you out? You're at the head of your own table...
...and I'm not dead.
...and now, I's just like a bee.
...and see how he like that.
...and since I never heard from you all this time...
...and such soft, beautiful hair.
...and they's alive.
...and you don't notice it.
...because her heart been broke.
...before he make his move on you.
...before they Iay eggs all over the place.
...before you can say, Amen.
...but I am not.
...but reverently and soberly and in the fear of God. Let us pray.
...but there's some things I love about him.
...can't say no to his daddy, hanging on me!
...cloves, eggs, and some candy for the children.
...crackers, brown sugar, oranges, nutmeg, flour, salt, pepper...
...cussing and screaming...
...don't go.
...everything you think about will crumble!
...except he don't know it.
...except walk?
...for everything you done for me.
...God sent them Olivia...
...got to have a pa.
...he knocking down and piling things up.
...history, geography, arithmetic, and the stories of the Bible.
...hoping my letters get lost among the Christmas and Easter greetings...
...I knowed there is a God.
...I'm gonna climb on top of you and do my business...
...in a field...
...is already done to you.
...is called Miss Celie's Blues.
...just to put her in the next.
...just trying to be loved.
...months...
...my hut...
...nappy headed....
...no laughter and no life. Just me.
...no matter what I'm doing, I'm writing you. Dear
...of treachery and deception.
...Oliver was the vicient victim of a sesum...
...Oliver was the victim of a systematic course...
...one of the missionaries that was supposed to go with Corrine and Samuel...
...one thing I want you to know....
...or Corrine has been sick...
...or ten...
...or that Albert get the holiday spirit and have pity on us.
...she and Olivia hide in my hut.
...something struck in me, in my soul, Celie, like a large bell.
...suddenly married a man, and I came in her place.
...systematic...
...that he took right out of my arms.
...that make you wonder what is lurking behind the shadows...
...that mean you still a virgin.
...that they could not have children.
...the man I knew as my pa is dead.
...this house is a wreck.
...to help with the children and setting up the school...
...to lavish all the love I feel for you on them.
...to protect and cherish them...
...to see you two together again.
...to take the mail out of the box.
...until death shall separate you?
...we'll all be coming home once we work something out with U.S. lmmigration.
...with my other brushes?
...you will perform unto him all duties owes to a husband...
'Cause he's a dirty mistreater A robber and a cheater
[ALBERT AND GRADY LAUGH]
[ALBERT CHUCKLES]
[ALBERT CHUCKLES]
[ALBERT GRUNTS]
[ALBERT GRUNTS]
[ALBERT HUMMING]
[ALBERT LAUGHS]
[ALBERT MOANING]
[ALL LAUGHING]
[AUDIENCE CHUCKLES]
[AUDIENCE CHUCKLES]
[BABY CRYING & HARPO WHISTLING]
[BABY CRYING]
[BABY CRYING]
[BARKING]
[BARKS]
[BELCHES]
[BIG BAND MUSIC PLAYING]
[BIG BAND MUSIC PLAYING]
[BIG BAND MUSIC PLAYING]
[BOTH SNIFFLE]
[BUZZES]
[CANS BANGING AND RATTLING]
[CAR ENGINE REVS & PEOPLE CLAMOR]
[CAR ENGINE REVS]
[CELIE GRUNTS]
[CELIE LAUGHS]
[CELIE SOBBING]
[CELIE YELPS]
[CHATTERING]
[CHATTERING]
[CHATTERING]
[CHATTERING]
[CHATTERING]
[CHATTERING]
[CHATTERING]
[CHATTERING]
[CHATTERS]
[CHILDREN LAUGHING]
[CHORUS CHATTERS]
[CHUCKLES]
[CHUCKLES]
[CLATTERING]
[CROWD APPLAUDING]
[CROWD CHEERS AND WHISTLES]
[CRYING] He don't know it.
[CRYING] I want to thank you, Miss Celie...
[DOOR SHUTS]
[FLAMES CRACKLE]
[GASPS]
[GEARS GRIND]
[GIGGLES]
[GIGGLING]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS AND PANTS]
[IMITATES SHUG] You ugly. You sure is ugly.
[IN DEEP VOICE] Ladies...
[IN DEEPER VOICE] For the next eight or ten months...
[IN NORMAL VOICE] Celie, no!
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
[INAUDIBLE SINGING]
[INAUDIBLE WHISPER]
[JINGLING]
[LAUGHING]
[LAUGHING]
[LAUGHING]
[LAUGHING]
[LAUGHING]
[LAUGHS]
[LAUGHS]
[LAUGHS]
[MAN SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
[MEN CHATTERING]
[MEN SHOUTING]
[MILLIE SCREAMING]
[MOOS]
[MOUTHS] Thank you.
[MUFFLED YELLING]
[NETTIE CHUCKLES AND CRIES]
[NETTIE SCREAMING]
[NETTIE WHIMPERS & ALBERT CHUCKLES]
[OLIVIA SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[ORGAN MUSIC PLAYS & PEOPLE CHATTER]
[PEOPLE CLAMORING]
[PHONOGRAPH PLAYING]
[PIANO PLAYING]
[PLAYING]
[PLAYING]
[RATTLING]
[SCREAMS]
[SCREAMS]
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[SHUG CHUCKLES]
[SHUG COUGHS AND WHEEZES]
[SHUG COUGHS]
[SHUG HUMMING]
[SHUG HUMMING]
[SINGING INCOHERENTLY]
[SINGING] ♪ Made him stout ♪ ♪ Wasn't satisfied till I made him a snout ♪
[SINGING] ♪ Makidada ♪ ♪ Keep my sister away from me ♪
[SINGING] ♪ Yeah ♪
[SINGING] ♪ You and me, us never part ♪
[SINGS] ♪ I couldn't sleep at night ♪
[SMACKS]
[SNIFFLES]
[SOBBING AND SCREAMING]
[SOBS] How could you leave me alone for so Iong?
[SOFIA CHUCKLES]
[SOFIA LAUGHING]
[SOFIA LAUGHING]
[SOFIA LAUGHS]
[SOFIA SNIFFLES]
[SQUEAK GIGGLING]
[SQUEAKING]
[SQUEALS]
[SQUEALS]
[SWING MUSIC PLAYING & PEOPLE CHATTERING]
[TASHl SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[THUMP & ALBERT SCREAMS]
[THUNDER CRASHES]
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[WHINNYING]
[WHISPERS] Let's sing God Is Trying To Tell You Something.
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[WHOOPING]
[YELLING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
♪ 'Cause he's the rottenest cheater ♪
♪ Ain't no ocean, ain't no sea ♪
♪ Ain't no ocean, ain't no sea Makidada ♪
♪ And I was wondering why ♪
♪ I betcha think I don't know nothing ♪
♪ I hear you, Lord ♪
♪ If you live right ♪ ♪ Heaven belongs to you ♪
♪ Is trying to tell you something ♪
♪ Made him a snout ♪ ♪ Just as long as a rail ♪
♪ Made him a tail ♪ ♪ Just a ♪
♪ Makidada ♪
♪ Makidada ♪
♪ Makidada ♪
♪ Makidada ♪
♪ Makidada ♪
♪ Makidada ♪
♪ Makidada ♪ ♪ Keep my sister away from me ♪
♪ Makidada ♪ ♪ Me and you, us have one heart ♪
♪ Makidada ♪ ♪ Me and you, us never part ♪
♪ Maybe God is trying to tell you something ♪ ♪ Right now ♪
♪ Me and you, us never part Makidada ♪
♪ Me and you, us never part Makidada ♪
♪ No, you can't sleep at ♪
♪ Oh, sister, we're two of a kind ♪
♪ Oh, speak, Lord ♪ ♪ Speak to me ♪
♪ Ohh ♪
♪ Save my soul ♪
♪ Slipped away from me ♪ ♪ Like a Cadillac snake ♪
♪ Slipping and a sliding ♪ ♪ Like an automobile ♪
♪ So let me tell you something ♪
♪ Speak to me ♪
♪ Speak, Lord ♪ ♪ Speak to me ♪
♪ Wasn't satisfied ♪ ♪ Till I made him a tail ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪