Porgy:
Bess, you is my woman now,
You is, you is!
Anâ you musâ laugh anâ sing anâ dance
For two instead of one.
Want no wrinkle on yoâ brow,
Nohow,
Because de sorrow of de past is all done done
Oh, bess, my bess!
Bess:
Porgy, iâs yoâ woman now,
I is, I is!
Anâ I ainât never goinâ nowhere âless you shares de fun.
Dereâs no wrinkle on my brow,
Nohow,
But I ainât goinâ! you hear me sayinâ,
If you ainâ goinâ, wid you Iâm stayinâ!
Porgy, iâs yoâ woman now!
Iâs yours forever -
Morninâ time anâ eveninâ time anâ
Summer time anâ winter time.
Porgy:
Morninâ time anâ eveninâ time anâ
Summer time anâ winter time.
Bess, you got yoâ man.
Bess, you is my woman now and forever.*
Dis life is jesâ begun,
Bess, we two is one
Now anâ forever.
Oh, bess, donât minâ dose women.
You got yoâ porgy.
I knows you means it,
I seen it in yoâ eyes, bess.
Weâll go swinginâ
Through de years a-singinâ.
Bess:
Morninâ time anâ eveninâ time anâ
Summer time anâ winter time.
Porgy:
Morninâ time anâ eveninâ time anâ
Summer time anâ winter time.
Bess:
Oh, my porgy, my man, porgy.
Porgy: [simultaneously] my bess, my bess.
Bess: from dis minute Iâm tellinâ you, I keep dis vow: porgy, iâs yoâ
Woman now.
Porgy: [simultaneously]
From dis minute Iâm tellinâ you, I keep dis vow:
Oh, my bessie, weâs happy now. we is one now.