Ella Fitzgerald
- What you want wid bess? Lyrics
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BESS
Oh... What you want wid Bess?
She's gettin' ole now;
Take a fine young gal
For to satisfy Crown.
Look at this chest
An' look at these arms you got.
You know how it always been with me,
These five years I been yo' woman,
You could kick me in the street,
Then when you wanted me back,
You could whistle, an' there I was
Back again, lickin' yo' hand.
There's plenty better lookin' gal than Bess.
Can' you see, I'm with Porgy,
Now and forever
I am his woman, he would die without me.
Oh, Crown, won't you let me go to my man, to my man.
He is a cripple an' needs my love, all my love.
What you want wid Bess? Oh, let me go to my man. . .
CROWN
What I wants wid other woman,
I gots a woman, yes,
An' dat is you, yes, dat is you, yes,
I need you now an' you're mine jus' as long as I want you.
No cripple goin' take my woman from me.
You got a man tonight an' that is Crown, yes, Crown, yes
Crown.
You're my woman, Bess, I'm tellin' you, now I'm your man.
(Pressing her very close)
BESS
What you want with Bess?
(Boat whistles)
Lemme go, Crown dat boat, it's goin' wiout me!
CROWN
You ain't goin' nowhere!
BESS
(Weakening)
Take yo' hands off me, I say, yo' hands, yo' hands, yo hands.
(Crown kisses her passionately)
CROWN
I knows you' ain' change - wid you and me it always be the
same. Git in dat thicket.
(Bess backs into woods; Crown follows.)
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- (i was) born to be blue
- (i'm) always true to you in my fashion
- (i've got) beginner's luck
- (if you can't sing it) you'll have to swing it
- (what can i say) after i say i'm sorry?
- A Beautiful Friendship
- A night in tunisia
- A woman is a sometime thing
- A-tisket, a-taskes
- Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
- Alexander's ragtime band
- All by myself
- All That Jazz
- All Things You Are
- Always
- Am I Blue
- Anything Goes Written By Cole Porter
- Aren't you kind of glad we did?
- As long as i live
- At Last
- Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
- Bess, you is my woman now
- Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
- Bidin' my time
- Blue Moon (Live Version)
- Blues in the night (my mama done tol' me)
- Boy wanted
- Boy! what love has done to me!
- By strauss
- Can't help lovin' dat man
- Canto Popular De La Vida Y Muerte
- Change partners
- Cheerful little earful
- Chewin' Gum
- Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie!
- Clap yo' hands
- Come rain or come shine
- Crab man
- Crying In The Chapel
- Dancing on the ceiling (he dances on my ceiling)
- Danke Shoen
- Darktown strutter's ball
- Day in - day out
- Ding-dong! the witch is dead
- Dont Be That Wayef
- Dream (when you're feeling blue)
- Drop me off in harlem
- Every time we say goodbye.
- Everyones wrong but me
- Fascinatin' Rhythm
- Fever
- For you, for me for evermore
- Get happy
- Get thee behind me satan
- Ghosts
- Gone with the wind
- Good morning blues
- Goodnight, my love
- Guilty
- Happiness is a thing called joe
- Happy blues
- Hard Heart Hannah
- Have yourself a merry little christmas
- Heat wave
- Here come de honey man
- Hernando's hideaway
- How about me?
- How deep is the ocean (how high is the sky)
- How's chances?
- I can't be bothered now
- I Can't Get Starded
- I got plenty o' nuttin
- I gotta right to sing the blues
- I remember you
- I used to be color blind
- I want to talk about you
- I wants to stay here
- I was doing all right
- If You Ever Should Leave
- If You Only Knew
- If you should ever leave
- Ill wind (you're blowing me no good)
- Isn't it a pity?
- Isn't this a lovely day (to be caught in the rain)
- It ain't necessarily so
- It's a lovely day today
- It's wonderful
- Jingle bells
- Just A Simple Melody
- Just another rhumba
- Lazy
- Let it snow! let it snow! let it snow!
- Let yourself go
- Let's face the music and dance
- Let's fall in love
- Let's kiss and make up
- Let's take a walk around the block
- Little girl blue
- Lorelei
- Lost in meditation
- Love is sweeping the country
- Love walked in
- McPherson Is Rehearsin' (To Swing)
- My cousin in milwaukee
- My man's gone now
- My reverie
- No strings (i'm fancy free)
- Of thee i sing (baby)
- Oh, bess, oh where's my bess?
- Oh, dey's so fresh and fine
- Oh, doctor jesus
- Oh, lawd, i'm on my way
- Oh, so nice
- Once i loved
- One Note Samba
- Organ Grinder's Swing
- Our love is here to stay
- Out of nowhere
- Perdido
- Puttin' on the ritz
- Remember
- Remind me
- Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
- Russian lullaby
- Sam and delilah
- Sentimental journey
- Shall we dance?
- She didn't say yes
- Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy
- Signing off
- Sing my heart
- Single-o
- Slap that bass
- Slumming on park avenue
- Somebody from somewhere
- Somebody loves me
- Somebody to watch over me
- Spring can really hang you up the most
- Stella by starlight
- Stiff upper lip
- Stormy Weather
- Stormy weather (keeps rainin' all the time)
- Strike up the band
- Suppertime
- Sweet georgia brown
- Swing low, sweet chariot
- Take love easy
- That certain feeling
- That's what i want for christmas
- The buzzard song
- The Girl From Ipanema
- The half of it, dearie" blues
- The real american folk song
- The song is ended (but the melody lingers on)
- The very thought of you
- There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for new york
- These foolish things (remind me of you)
- Things are looking up
- This year's kisses
- Top hat, white tie, and tails
- Treat me rough
- What are you doing new year's eve?
- What you want wid bess?
- White christmas
- Who cares?
- Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
- Yesterdays
- You can have him
- You keep coming back like a song
- You're blase
- You've got a friend
- You've got what gets me
- Ain't Misbehavin'
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