Here Comes Big Boy! (Entrance of Crown and Bess)

Lyrics

[MINGO, spoken] Hello, Big Boy! [JAKE, spoken] 'Lo, Crown [JIM, spoken] 'Lo, Bess [General greetings of CROWN and BESS from crap ring.] [CROWN] Hi, boys! All right, Sportin' Life Give us a pint and make it damn quick Pay him, Bess [JAKE] Drunk again [PORGY] He sure love his liquor But some day she's gonna throw him down [CROWN] That damn whiskey's just as weak as water [SERENA] See that hussy drinking like any man [BESS] Here, Robbins, have one to the God fearin' ladies There's nothin' like 'em, thank God [BESS, spoken] Ha ha ha ha ha ha [CROWN] Oh, no, you don't [CROWN, spoken] Nobody ain't drinkin' none of my liquor [CROWN] All right, mens, I'm talkin' to you Anybody answerin' me? [ROBBINS] Boxcars again [MINGO] Cover 'em, brother, cover 'em [ROBBINS] Cover hell! I goin' to pass 'em along [ROBBINS, spoken] And see if I can break my luck [MINGO] Robbins' lady ain't allow him but fifty cents And he can't take no chances with bad luck [BESS] That's all right, honey boy I'll stake you when your four bits done gone [SERENA] Go ahead and play You don't need no charity off no she-devils [BESS, spoken] See what I get for you [BESS] Your woman is easy when you know the way [BESS, spoken] Ha ha ha ha ha ha [JAKE] Crapped out! [PORGY] Don't you ever let a woman grieve you [PORGY & BESS] 'Cause she got your wedding ring [PORGY] She'll [PORGY & ENSEMBLE] Love you and deceive you Take your clothes and leave you 'Cause— [PORGY] A woman is a sometime thing [PORGY & ENSEMBLE] Yes, a woman is a sometime thing [SERENA] That gal ain't need to worry 'bout no man marrying her [BESS] Some women got to marry a man to keep him [CROWN, spoken] Shut your damn mouth! [CROWN] You don't give Mingo a chance to talk to the bones [MINGO] Fade me Old snake-eye go off and die Old man seven come down from heaven Seven! [CROWN] I ain't seen that seven yet You done turn 'em over [MINGO] What I throw? [SPORTIN' LIFE] Seven [SPORTIN' LIFE & PORGY] Seven (He throw seven) [CROWN] Well, there's more than one big mouth done meet his God [CROWN, spoken] For pullin' 'em in before I reads 'em, see! [CROWN] And I'm saying it over tonight [MINGO] Your mammy is gone and your daddy's happy Come home little bones, come home to pappy Four to make Come four! [PORGY] Crapped out! [CROWN] I shoots like that Come clean you little blackeyed bitches [MINGO] Six! Six! [SPORTIN' LIFE] Six to make! [JAKE] Six to make! [CROWN] Kiss rabbit foot And show these tinhorns how to hit [SPORTIN' LIFE] Ha! Crapped out, come to your pappy [ROBBINS] Crown too cockeyed drunk to read 'em [ROBBINS, spoken] What the dice say, Bess? [BESS] Seven [CROWN] I ain't drunk enough to read 'em That is the trouble Ha ha ha ha ha, ah ha ha ha ha ha! Liquor ain't strong enough [CROWN, spoken] Give me a pinch of happy dust [CROWN] Sportin' Life [BESS] Don't give him that stuff, Sportin' Life He's ugly drunk already [CROWN] Pay him and shut up! [PETER] Friend and dice and happy dust ain't meant to 'sociate You mens best go slow [JAKE & MINGO] Leave Peter be, let him alone (He ain't mean no harm) [SPORTIN' LIFE] Huh, seven! Huh, seven! Huh, seven! 'Leven come home, Fido! *Whistling* [CROWN] God damn it [CROWN, spoken] I ain't read 'em yet [MEN] Crown cockeyed drunk, he can't tell dice from a watermelon Crown cockeyed drunk, he can't tell dice from wa— [CROWN, spoken] Shut up! God damn it [SPORTIN' LIFE] Six to make! [JIM] Seven! [JAKE & MINGO] Seven, Seven! (Crapped out!) [JAKE] Porgy shoots now