title: Bess, You Is My Woman Now
key: Musical
harp type: Chromatic
genre: Bb
skill: Any

W: Dubose & Dorothy Hayward & Ira Gershwin
M: George Gershwin
From: “Porgy & Bess”
Ella Fitzgerald
Key: Bb, D
Key: Bb
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Bess, you is my wom-an now,
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you is, you is an’
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you mus’ laugh an’ sing an’ dance
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for two in-stead of one.
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Want no wrin-kle on yo’ brow,
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No how,
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Be-cause de sor-row of the past
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is all done, done
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Oh, Bess, my Bess!
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de real hap-pi-ness is jes’ be-gun
Key: D
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Por-gy, I’s yo’ wom-an now,
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I is, I is!
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An’ I ain’ nev-er go-in’ no-where
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‘less you shares de fun.
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Dere’s no wrin-kle on my brow,
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No how,
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But I ain’ go-in’ You hear me say-in
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If you ain’ go-in’, wid you I’m stay-in’
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Por- gy, I’s yo’ wom-an now!
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I’s yours for-ev-er
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Morn-in’ time an’ eve-‘nin’ time an’
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Sum-mer time an’ win-ter time.
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Morn-in’ time an’ eve-nin’ time an’
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sum-mer time an’ win-ter time.
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Bess, you got yo’ man.