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lirik lagu leontyne price & mchenry boatwright - what you want wid bess?

[boat whistle sounds.]

[serena, spoken]
you best hurry up
you gonna miss that boat

[maria, spoken]
hey there!
hold your holt
i’s a~comin!
hurry up, bess!
that boat’s gettin’ the whooping cough

[crown, spoken]
psst—hey, bess!

[bess, spoken]
crown!

[crown]
you know very well this crown
i see you land and i been waitin’ all day for to see you
i ‘most dead on this d~mn island

[bess]
you ain’t looks ‘most dead, you bigger than ever
[crown]
oh, i got plenty to eat
bird egg, oyster, and such
but i ‘most dead of the lonesome
with not one god person to swap a word with
lord, i’s glad you come

[bess]
i can’t stay, crown, or the boat’ll go without me

[crown, spoken]
d~mn that boat!
got any happy dust with you?

[bess]
no, crown, no more happy dust
i done give up dope, and besides, crown
i got something to tell you

[crown]
you just listen to what i gots to tell you
i waitin’ here ’til the cotton bеgin comin’ in
then livin’ll be easy
johnny’ll hidе you and me on the riverboat far as savannah
who you livin’ with now?
[bess]
i livin’ with the cripple porgy

[crown, spoken]
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[crown]
you sure got funny taste in men, but that’s your business
i ain’t care who you takes up with while i’s away
but ‘member what i told you
he’s temporary
i reckon it’ll just be a couple of weeks now ‘fore i comes for you

[bess]
crown, i got something to tell you

[crown]
what that?

[bess]
i, i livin’ with porgy now, and i livin’ decent

[crown]
i hear what i tell you
i say in a couple of weeks i’s comin’ for you
and you is goin’ tote fair, less’n you wants to meet your god
[crown, spoken]
you gets that?

[boat whistle sounds.]

[bess, spoken]
take your hands off me, i’m gonna miss that boat

[crown]
you tellin’ me that you’d rather have that cripple than crown?

[bess]
it’s like this, crown
i’s the only woman porgy ever had
and i’s thinkin’ now, how it’ll be tonight
when all them other peoples go back to catfish row
he’ll be sittin’ and watchin’ the big front gate
a~countin’ ’em off, waitin’ for bess
and when the last woman goes home to her man
and i ain’t there—

[crown, spoken]
ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[bess, spoken]
lemme go, crown!
you can get plenty other women

[crown]
what i wants with other woman?

[crown, spoken]
i gots a woman and that’s you, see!

[bess]
oh, what you want with bess?
she’s gettin’ old now
takes 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
and when you wanted me back
you could whistle and there i was
back again, l!ckin’ 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’s got 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’s gonna take my woman from me)
he is a cripple (you got your man tonight)
and needs my love, all my love (and that is 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?

[boat whistle sounds.]

[bess, spoken]
lemme go
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
get in that thicket

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