Bess, You Is My Woman Now

(album: The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve - 1997)

Bess, you is my woman now
You is, you is
And you must laugh and sing and dance
For two instead of one
Want no wrinkle on yo' brow
Nohow
Because the sorrow of the past is all done, done
Oh, Bess, my Bess

Porgy, I's yo' woman now
I is, I is
And I ain't never going nowhere 'less you shares the fun
There's no wrinkle on my brow
Nohow
But I ain't going, you hear me saying
If you ain't going with you, I'm staying
Porgy, I's yo' woman now
I's yours forever
Morning time and evening time and
Summer time and winter time

Morning time and evening time and
Summer time and winter time
Bess, you got yo' man
Bess, you is my woman now and forever
This life is jes' begun
Bess, we two is one
Now and forever
Oh, Bess, don't mind those women
You got yo' Porgy
I knows you means it
I seen it in yo' eyes, Bess
We'll go swinging
Through the years a-singing

Morning time and evening time and
Summer time and winter time

Morning time and evening time and
Summer time and winter time

Oh, my Porgy, my man, Porgy
My Bess, my Bess
From this minute I'm telling you
I keep this vow: Porgy, I's yo' woman now

From this minute I'm telling you, I keep this vow
Oh, my Bessie, we's happy now; We is one now