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Bess, You Is My Woman Now
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Porgy:
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Bess, you is my woman now,
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you is, you is!
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An' you mus' laugh an' sing an' dance
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for two instead of one.
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Want no wrinkle on yo' brow,
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Nohow,
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Because de sorrow of de past is all done done
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Oh, Bess, my Bess!
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Bess:
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Porgy, I's yo' woman now,
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I is, I is!
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An' I ain't never goin' nowhere 'less you shares de fun.
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Dere's no wrinkle on my brow,
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Nohow,
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But I ain't goin'! You hear me sayin',
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If you ain' goin', wid you I'm stayin'!
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Porgy, I's yo' woman now!
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I's yours forever -
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Mornin' time an' evenin' time an'
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summer time an' winter time.
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Porgy:
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Mornin' time an' evenin' time an'
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summer time an' winter time.
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Bess, you got yo' man.
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Bess, you is my woman now and forever.*
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Dis life is jes' begun,
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Bess, we two is one
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Now an' forever.
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Oh, bess, don't min' dose women.
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You got yo' Porgy.
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I knows you means it,
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I seen it in yo' eyes, Bess.
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We'll go swingin'
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Through de years a-singin'.
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Bess:
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Mornin' time an' evenin' time an'
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summer time an' winter time.
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Porgy:
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Mornin' time an' evenin' time an'
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summer time an' winter time.
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Bess:
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Oh, my Porgy, my man, Porgy.
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Porgy: [simultaneously] My bess, my Bess.
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Bess: From dis minute I'm tellin' you, I keep dis vow: Porgy, I's yo'
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woman now.
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Porgy: [simultaneously]
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From dis minute I'm tellin' you, I keep dis vow:
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Oh, my Bessie, we's happy now. We is one now.
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*Sung as Bess repeats her part from 'Porgy, I's yo' woman now...'
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through 'I's yours forever -'
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