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What you want wid Bess Lyrics

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BESS
What you want wid Bess?
She's gettin' ole now;
Take a fine young gal
For to satisfy Crown.
Look at this chest
An' look at these arms you got.
You know how it always been with me,
These five years I been yo' woman,
You could kick me in the street,
Then when you wanted me back,
You could whistle, an' there I was
Back again, lickin' yo' hand.
There's plenty better lookin' gal than Bess.

Can' you see, I'm with Porgy,
Now and forever
I am his woman, he would die without me.
Oh, Crown, won't you let me go to my man, to my man.
He is a cripple an' needs my love, all my love.
What you want wid Bess?
Oh, let me go to my man. . .

CROWN
What I wants wid other woman,
I gots a woman, yes,
An' dat is you, yes, dat is you, yes,
I need you now an' you're mine
jus' as long as I want you.
No cripple goin' take my woman from me.
You got a man tonight an' that is

Crown, yes, Crown, yes
Crown.
You're my woman, Bess, I'm tellin'
you, now I'm your man.

(Pressing her very close)

BESS
What you want with Bess?
(Boat whistles)
Lemme go, Crown dat boat, it's goin' without me!

CROWN
You ain't goin' nowhere!

BESS
(Weakening)
Take yo' hands off me, I
say, yo' hands, yo' hands, yo hands.
(Crown kisses her passionately)

CROWN
I knows you' ain' change -
Wid you and me it always be the same.
Git in dat thicket.

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Porgy and Bess Lyrics: Song List

  1. Introduction and Jasbo Brown Blues 
  2. Summertime
  3. Oh, Nobody Knows When de Lord Is Gonna Call 
  4. A Woman is a Sometime Thing
  5. Here Come de Honey Man; Porgy's Entrance 
  6. Here Comes Big Boy! 
  7. Oh Little Stars, Little Stars 
  8. Wake Up an' Hit It Out 
  9. Gone, Gone, Gone 
  10. Overflow 
  11. Well, Well, Well, a Saucer-Burying-Setup 
  12. My Man's Gone Now
  13. How de Saucer Stan' Now, My Sister? 
  14. Leavin' for the Promise' Lan' 
  15. It Takes a Long Pull to Get There
  16. Mus' Be You Mens Forgot About de Picnic 
  17. I Got Plenty o' Nuttin
  18. Lissen There, What I Tells You 
  19. I Hates Yo' Struttin' Style 
  20. Mornin' Lawyer 
  21. Dey's a Buckra Comin' 
  22. Buzzard Keep on Flying
  23. Lo, Bess, Goin' to the Picnic? 
  24. Bess, You Is My Woman
  25. Oh, I Can't Sit Down
  26. What's de Matter Wid You, Sister? 
  27. I Ain't Got No Shame 
  28. It Ain't Necessarily So
  29. Dance; Shame on All You Sinners 
  30. Crown! 
  31. What you want wid Bess
  32. Lemme Go, Hear dat Boat 
  33. Honey, dat's All de Breakfast I Got Time for 
  34. Take Yo' Hands off Me, I Say 
  35. Oh, Doctor Jesus
  36. Strawberry Woman; Honey Man; Crab Man 
  37. Now de Time, Oh, Gawd 
  38. I Love You, Porgy
  39. Why You Been Out on That Wharf So Long, Clara? 
  40. Oh, Doctor Jesus (Hurricane Scene)/Summertime (Reprise) 
  41. What Make You So Still, Bess; Oh, Dere's Somebody Knockin' 
  42. You Is a Nice Parcel of Christians 
  43. A Red-Headed Woman
  44. Jack's Boat Is de River 
  45. Clara, Clara 
  46. You Low-Lived Skunk 
  47. Summertime (Reprise) ; Death of Crown 
  48. Wait For Us at the Corner, Al 
  49. What Is Your Name? 
  50. Oh, Gawd! They Goin' Make Him Look on Crown's Face! 
  51. There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
  52. Catfish Row Interlude 
  53. Good Mornin', sistuh! Good Mornin', brudder! 
  54. It's Porgy Comin' Home 
  55. Oh, Bess, Oh, Where's My Bess
  56. Bess Is Gone 
  57. O Lawd, I'm On My Way

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