Porgy and Bess Lyrics: Song List
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Introduction and Jasbo Brown Blues
- Summertime
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Oh, Nobody Knows When de Lord Is Gonna Call
- A Woman is a Sometime Thing
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Here Come de Honey Man; Porgy's Entrance
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Here Comes Big Boy!
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Oh Little Stars, Little Stars
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Wake Up an' Hit It Out
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Gone, Gone, Gone
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Overflow
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Well, Well, Well, a Saucer-Burying-Setup
- My Man's Gone Now
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How de Saucer Stan' Now, My Sister?
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Leavin' for the Promise' Lan'
- It Takes a Long Pull to Get There
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Mus' Be You Mens Forgot About de Picnic
- I Got Plenty o' Nuttin
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Lissen There, What I Tells You
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I Hates Yo' Struttin' Style
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Mornin' Lawyer
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Dey's a Buckra Comin'
- Buzzard Keep on Flying
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Lo, Bess, Goin' to the Picnic?
- Bess, You Is My Woman
- Oh, I Can't Sit Down
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What's de Matter Wid You, Sister?
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I Ain't Got No Shame
- It Ain't Necessarily So
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Dance; Shame on All You Sinners
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Crown!
- What you want wid Bess
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Lemme Go, Hear dat Boat
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Honey, dat's All de Breakfast I Got Time for
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Take Yo' Hands off Me, I Say
- Oh, Doctor Jesus
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Strawberry Woman; Honey Man; Crab Man
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Now de Time, Oh, Gawd
- I Love You, Porgy
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Why You Been Out on That Wharf So Long, Clara?
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Oh, Doctor Jesus (Hurricane Scene)/Summertime (Reprise)
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What Make You So Still, Bess; Oh, Dere's Somebody Knockin'
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You Is a Nice Parcel of Christians
- A Red-Headed Woman
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Jack's Boat Is de River
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Clara, Clara
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You Low-Lived Skunk
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Summertime (Reprise) ; Death of Crown
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Wait For Us at the Corner, Al
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What Is Your Name?
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Oh, Gawd! They Goin' Make Him Look on Crown's Face!
- There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
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Catfish Row Interlude
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Good Mornin', sistuh! Good Mornin', brudder!
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It's Porgy Comin' Home
- Oh, Bess, Oh, Where's My Bess
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Bess Is Gone
- O Lawd, I'm On My Way
About the "Porgy and Bess" Stage Show
Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It was adapted from Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play Porgy, itself an adaptation of DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel of the same name
Release date: 2013