Porgy:
Bessyou is my woman now
you isyou is!
An you mus laugh an sing an dance
for two instead of one.
Want no wrinkle on yo brow
Nohow
Because de sorrow of de past is all done done
OhBessmy Bess!

Bess:
PorgyI s yo woman now
I isI is!
An I ain t never goin nowhere less you shares de fun.
Dere s no wrinkle on my brow
Nohow
But I ain t goin ! You hear me sayin
If you ain goin wid you I m stayin !

PorgyI s yo woman now!
I s yours forever -
Mornin time an evenin time an
summer time an winter time.

Porgy:
Mornin time an evenin time an
summer time an winter time.
Bessyou got yo man.

Bessyou is my woman now and forever.*
Dis life is jes begun
Besswe two is one
Now an forever.
Ohbessdon t min dose women.
You got yo Porgy.
I knows you means it
I seen it in yo eyesBess.
We ll go swingin
Through de years a-singin .

Bess:
Mornin time an evenin time an
summer time an winter time.

Porgy:
Mornin time an evenin time an
summer time an winter time.

Bess:
Ohmy Porgymy manPorgy.

Porgy: [simultaneously] My bessmy Bess.

Bess: From dis minute I m tellin youI keep dis vow: PorgyI s yo
woman now.

Porgy: [simultaneously]
From dis minute I m tellin youI keep dis vow:
Ohmy Bessiewe s happy now. We is one now.

*Sung as Bess repeats her part from PorgyI s yo woman now...
through I s yours forever -

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