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Now de Time, Oh, Gawd Lyrics by Clamma Dale, Donnie Ray Albert

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

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[CRAB MAN, spoken]
Get your crab
Crab man, crab man
Devil crab
[PORGY]
Now the time, oh God
Now the time
[BESS & PORGY]
Porgy, Porgy, that you there ain't it? (Thank God, thank God!)
[BESS]
I lonesome here all by myself
It's hot in there
Let me sit here with you in the cool
[PORGY]
Oh, Bess! Bess!
[BESS]
I been sick, ain't I?
[PORGY]
You been very sick
But now I got you back, Bess
[BESS]
How long I been sick?
[PORGY]
Over a week now
You come back from Kittiwah with eye like fireball
And Maria get you into bed
And you ain't know me
[PORGY, spoken]
What's the matter, Bess?
[BESS]
I guess I ain't know nothin' with the fever
Or I ain't come back at all
[PORGY, spoken]
That's alright, honey
[PORGY]
Don't you worry, honey
I know you been with Crown
[BESS, spoken]
How you know?
[PORGY]
God give cripple to understand many thing he ain't give strong men
[BESS]
You ain't want me to go 'way?
[PORGY]
No, no
I ain't want you to go
How things stand between you and Crown?
[BESS]
He's comin' for me when the cotton come to town
[PORGY, spoken]
You goin'?
[BESS]
I tells him, yes
[BESS, spoken]
Porgy, God, man
Why your muscle pull up like that?
It make me afraid
[PORGY]
You ain't got nothin' to be afraid of
I ain't try to keep no woman what don't wanna stay
If you wants to go to Crown, that's for you to say
Credits
Clamma Dale

Clamma Dale

Donnie Ray Albert

Donnie Ray Albert

About “Now de Time, Oh, Gawd” by Clamma Dale

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