Ella Fitzgerald - What You Want Wid Bess? Lyrics
BessOh... what you want wid bess?Shes gettin ole now;Take a fine young galFor to satisfy crown.Look at this chestAn 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 wasBack again, lickin yo hand.Theres plenty better lookin gal than bess.Can you see, Im with porgy,Now and foreverI am his woman, he would die without me.Oh, crown, wont 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. . .CrownWhat I wants wid other woman,I gots a woman, yes,An dat is you, yes, dat is you, yes,I need you now an youre 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, yesCrown.Youre my woman, bess, Im tellin you, now Im your man.(pressing her very close)BessWhat you want with bess?(boat whistles)Lemme go, crown dat boat, its goin wiout me!CrownYou aint goin nowhere!Bess(weakening)Take yo hands off me, I say, yo hands, yo hands, yo hands.(crown kisses her passionately)CrownI knows you ain change - wid you and me it always be theSame. git in dat thicket.(bess backs into woods; crown follows.)
