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Artist: Porgy and Bess: (The Musical)
Canonical path: /porgy-and-bess-the-musical/what-you-want-wid-bess
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What You Want Wid Bess
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What You Want Wid Bess
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Bess
What you want wid bess?
She's gettin' ole now
Take a fine young gal
For to satisfy crown
Look at this chest
An' look at these arms you got
You know how it always been with me
These five years I been yo' woman
You could kick me in the street
Then when you wanted me back
You could whistle, an' there I was
Back again, lickin' yo' hand
There's plenty better lookin' gal than bess
Can' you see, I'm with porgy
Now and forever
I am his woman, he would die without me
Oh, crown, won't you let me go to my man, to my man
He is a cripple an' needs my love, all my love
What you want wid bess? Oh, let me go to my man
Crown
What I wants wid other woman
I gots a woman, yes
An' dat is you, yes, dat is you, yes
I need you now an' you're mine
Jus' as long as I want you
No cripple goin' take my woman from me
You got a man tonight an' that is
Crown, yes, crown, yes
Crown
You're my woman, bess, I'm tellin'
You, now I'm your man
Bess
What you want with bess? (boat whistles)
Lemme go, crown dat boat, it's goin' without me!
Crown
You ain't goin' nowhere!
Bess (weakening)
Take yo' hands off me, I
Say, yo' hands, yo' hands, yo hands. (crown kisses her passionately)
Crown
I knows you' ain' change, wid you and me it always be the same
Git in dat thicket.
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