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Take Yo’ Hands Off Me, I Say Lyrics by Clamma Dale, Wilma Shakesnider, Carol Brice, Mervin Wallace, Donnie Ray Albert

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

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[BESS]
Take your hands off me, I say
[BESS & SERENA]
Your hands, your hands, your hands (She's still out her head)
[BESS]
Eighteen mile to Kittiwah
Eighteen mile to travel
Lord, what a long road
Ain't nobody to help me
Ain't nobody to help me
[MARIA, spoken]
Well, if it ain't old Peter
How come they let you out of jail?
[PETER]
The white folk put me in
And the white folk take me out
And I ain't know yet what I done
What I done, done, done
[BESS]
Oh, there's a rattlesnake in them bushes
[BESS & PETER, spoken]
Oh Lord, ain't nobody to help me (What's the matter?)
[MARIA]
Porgy woman very sick more'n a week now
She gone to the picnic and get lost in the jungle
She ain't come home for two day
[PORGY]
I think that maybe she going to sleep now
A whole week gone now and she ain't no better
[PORGY, spoken]
Hello, Peter
Welcome back home, old friend
[PETER]
I advise you to send her to the white folks hospital
[PORGY]
Oh God, don't let 'em take Bess to the hospital
[SERENA]
Hospital!
Must be you is all forget how I pray Clara's baby out of the convulsions
There ain't never been a sick person or corpse in Catfish Row
That I has refused my prayer
[PORGY, spoken]
That's right, sister, you pray over her
Credits
Clamma Dale

Clamma Dale

Wilma Shakesnider

Wilma Shakesnider

Carol Brice

Carol Brice

Mervin Wallace

Mervin Wallace

Donnie Ray Albert

Donnie Ray Albert

About “Take Yo’ Hands Off Me, I Say” by Clamma Dale

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