Bess you is my woman now

You is you is

And you must sing and laugh and dance

For two instead of one

Want no wrinkle on yo' brow

Nohow

Because the sorrow of the past is all done done

My Bess oh Bess

De real happiness is jes' begun

Porgy I's yo' woman now

I is I is

And I ain't never goin' nowhere 'less you shares the fun

There's no wrinkle on my brow

Nohow

And I ain't goin' you hear me sayin'

If you ain't goin' with you I'm stayin'

Porgy I's yo' woman now

I's yours forever

Mornin' time and evenin' time and

Summer time and winter time

Mornin' time and evenin' 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

You loves yo' Porgy

I knows you means it

I seen it in yo' eyes Bess

We'll go swingin'

Through the years a singin'

Mornin' time and evenin' time and

Summer time and winter time

Mornin' time and evenin' time and

Summer time and winter time

Oh my Porgy my man Porgy

From this minute I'm tellin' you

I keep this vow

Oh my Bessie we's happy now we is one now