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What You Want Wid Bess? Lyrics by Anne Brown, Todd Duncan

Selections from George Gershwin’s Folk Opera Porgy and Bess

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[BESS]
Oh, what you want with Bess?
She's gettin' old now
Take a fine young gal
For to satisfy Crown
Look at this chest
And look at these arms you got
You know how it always been with me
These five years I been your woman
You could kick me in the street
Then when you wanted me back
You could whistle and there I was
Back again, lickin' your hand
There's plenty better lookin' gal than Bess
[BESS & CROWN]
Can't you see (What I wants with other woman?)
I'm with Porgy, now and forever (I gots a woman, yes)
I am his woman (And that is you, yes)
He would die without me (That is you, yes)
Oh, Crown, won't you let me go (I need you now and you're mine)
To my man (Just as long as I want you)
To my man? (No cripple goin' take my woman from me)
He is a cripple (You got a man tonight)
And needs my love (And that is Crown)
All my love (Yes, Crown, yes Crown)
What you want with Bess? (You're my woman, Bess)
Oh, let me go to my man (I'm tellin' you, now I'm your man)
[BESS]
What you want with Bess?
[BESS, spoken]
Lemme go, Crown
Hear that boat?
It's goin' without me
[CROWN]
You ain't goin' nowhere!
[BESS]
Take your hands off me, I say
Your hands, your hands, your hands
[CROWN]
I knows you ain't change
With you and me it always be the same
Credits
Anne Brown

Anne Brown

Todd Duncan

Todd Duncan

About “What You Want Wid Bess?” by Anne Brown

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