Crown!

Lyrics

[CROWN whistles to BESS.] [BESS, spoken] Crown! [CROWN] You know very well this Crown I seen you land and I been waitin' all day for see you I 'most dead on this damn island [BESS] You ain't look 'most dead, you bigger than ever [CROWN] Oh, I got plenty to eat Bird egg, oyster, and such But I 'most dead of the lonesome With not one God person to swap a word with Lord, I's glad you come [BESS] I can't stay, Crown, or the boat will go without me [CROWN, spoken] Damn that boat! [CROWN] Got any happy dust with you? [BESS] No, Crown, no more happy dust I done give up dope, and besides, Crown I got somethin' to tell you [CROWN] You best listen to what I gots to tell you I wait here 'til the cotton begin comin' in Then livin'll be easy Johnny'll hide you and me on the riverboat far as Savannah Who you livin' with now? [BESS] I livin' with thе cripple Porgy [CROWN, spoken] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [CROWN] You sure got funny taste in mеn, but that's your business I ain't care who you take up with while I's away But 'member what I told you He's temporary I reckon it'll just be a couple of weeks now 'fore I comes for you [BESS] Crown, I got somethin' to tell you [CROWN] What that? [BESS] I, I livin' with Porgy now, and I livin' decent [CROWN] You hear what I told you I said in a couple of weeks I's comin' for you And you is goin' tote fair, unless you wants to meet your God [CROWN, spoken] You get that? [Boat whistle sounds.] [BESS, spoken] Take your hands off me, I'm gonna miss that boat [CROWN] You tellin' me that you'd rather have that cripple than Crown? [BESS] It's like this, Crown I's the only woman Porgy ever had And I's thinking now, how it's gonna be tonight When all these other people go back to Catfish Row He'll be sittin' and watchin' the big front gate A-countin' 'em off, waitin' for Bess And when the last woman goes home to her man And I ain't there— [CROWN, spoken] Ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [BESS, spoken] Lemme go, Crown! You can get plenty of other women [CROWN] What I wants with other woman? [CROWN, spoken] I gots a woman and that's you, see!