Porgy:
 Bess, you is my woman now,
 You is, you is!
 An’ you mus’ laugh an’ sing an’ dance
 For two instead of one
 Want no wrinkle on yo’ brow,
 Nohow,
 Because de sorrow of de past is all done done
 Oh, bess, my bess!

 Bess:
 Porgy, i’s yo’ woman now,
 I is, I is!
 An’ I ain’t never goin’ nowhere ’less you shares de fun
 Dere’s no wrinkle on my brow,
 Nohow,
 But I ain’t goin’! you hear me sayin’,
 If you ain’ goin’, wid you I’m stayin’!

 Porgy, i’s yo’ woman now!
 I’s yours forever -
 Mornin’ time an’ evenin’ time an’
 Summer time an’ winter time

 Porgy:
 Mornin’ time an’ evenin’ time an’
 Summer time an’ winter time
 Bess, you got yo’ man

 Bess, you is my woman now and forever*
 Dis life is jes’ begun,
 Bess, we two is one
 Now an’ forever
 Oh, bess, don’t min’ dose women
 You got yo’ porgy
 I knows you means it,
 I seen it in yo’ eyes, bess
 We’ll go swingin’
 Through de years a-singin’

 Bess:
 Mornin’ time an’ evenin’ time an’
 Summer time an’ winter time

 Porgy:
 Mornin’ time an’ evenin’ time an’
 Summer time an’ winter time

 Bess:
 Oh, my porgy, my man, porgy

 Porgy: [simultaneously] my bess, my bess

 Bess: from dis minute I’m tellin’ you, I keep dis vow: porgy, i’s yo’
 Woman now

 Porgy: [simultaneously]
 From dis minute I’m tellin’ you, I keep dis vow:
 Oh, my bessie, we’s happy now we is one now