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