Bess, You Is My Woman Now (chromatic)

BESS YOU IS MY WOMAN NOW   
W: Dubose & Dorothy Hayward & Ira Gershwin
M: George Gershwin
From: “Porgy & Bess”
Ella Fitzgerald
Key: Bb, D 

Key: Bb
-7*   -9  -6 7   7* 7  -6
Bess, you is my wom-an now, 
-7* -3* -7* -3* 5
you is, you is an’ 
 5* -5     -6  5*   -5  -6    5*
you mus' laugh an' sing an' dance 
-5  -7  -7   -7  -7* 8
for two in-stead of one. 
 -7* -9  -6   7  7*  7   -6
Want no wrin-kle on yo' brow, 
-3* -7
No how, 
-3  -8   -7  7  -6* -6 -5   6   
Be-cause de sor-row of the past 
-5  6   -5   -6*   
is all done, done 
-5   8*   5*  -9*
Oh, Bess, my Bess! 
8* -8-7* -7 -6* 7*  -6* -7 -7* -6* 
de real hap-pi-ness is jes’ be-gun 

Key: D
-9 -10* -7  -8   8* -8 -7
Por-gy, I's yo' wom-an now, 
-9-5 -9 -5
I is, I is! 
6  -6 -6*  -7  -6 -6* -7 -6  -6*  
An' I ain' nev-er go-in' no-where  
  8*   8*   8*   -9 10
'less you shares de fun. 
  -9  -10* -7  -8  8  -8  -7
Dere's no wrin-kle on my brow, 
-5  8*
No how, 
 5*-9* 9* -9* 9*  -10* -9* 9* -9* 9*
But I ain' go-in' You hear me say-in 
-8 -8  -7*  -8 -7   -9* -7* -6*  -6  -6*
If you ain' go-in', wid you I'm stay-in' 
-10*-11*  9* -9* 10 -9*  9*
Por- gy, I's yo' wom-an now! 
-11*  9*  -9* 10 -9*
I's yours for-ev-er 
 8*  -6* -6* -6*   8*  -6*  -6* -6*  
Morn-in' time an' eve-‘nin' time an' 
 8* -10*-10*-10*  9* -6*  -6*
Sum-mer time an' win-ter time. 
 8*  -6* -6* -6*   8*  -6*  -6* -6*  
Morn-in' time an' eve-nin' time an' 
 5* -6*  -6* -6*  8* -6*  -6*  
sum-mer time an' win-ter time. 
 8*    7*  7  -6* -6
Bess, you got yo' man. 

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