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I Never Get What I Pray For from Whistle Down The Wind |
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I wanna be
baptised and I wanna be saved
Brat Swallow!
Swallow Well I don’t! I never get what I pray for I can pray for less or a whole lot more
Swallow, Poor Baby & Brat
It don’t ever
matter, it’s a sure bet
Swallow An end to the horrors of the atom bomb
Brat And a dance with Ricky Nelson at the homecoming prom I wanna be beautiful, sexy and smart
Poor Baby I wanna sister that don’t hiccup
Brat I want a bruber that don’t fart
Poor Baby I wanna move like Elvis in every way
Brat I wanna look like Sandra Dee or maybe Doris Day
Swallow They should send us down some angels We could never have enough
Brat They should send us down some money
Swallow, Poor Baby & Brat So we can buy each other stuff. I never get what I pray for I can pray for less or a whole lot more It don’t ever matter, it’s a sure bet That I never get what I pray for
Brat We should all be praying for dad It’s scary how he’s been
Poor Baby He was crying in the trailer
Brat No way I was going in
Poor Baby I want a football
Brat and some Lipstick
Poor Baby And some Liquorice
Brat and a kite
Swallow And I just want our mother back, If only for one night There are things she’s gotta tell me There are things she’s gotta know God had no right to take her, She had no right to go There are things I didn’t tell her And so much I had to say So I just want my mother back If only for one day.
The children who have been happily
singing of what they pray for suddenly realise that it is getting dark.
Their father will be worried and they are late getting home. On the way
they see Earl (a coloured man whom I presume works for their father)
carrying a sack. The sack contains some kittens and Earl says that he is
going to send them back to Jesus. He throws the sack into the sewer and
goes on his way. Swallow climbs into the sewer and retrieves the sack,
saving the kittens. Together they rush home to the trailer singing Home By
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