Black Kripple love story
Porgy singing to his lady
Love against all odds
Black kripple beggar
Took care of business
Made sure that they were together
Bess u is my woman
I loves you Porgy
Dealt with the public’s pressure
Today’s Porgy & Bess
Have to play chess
Filling out government boxes
Porgy was strong as an ox
Now beat down by Uncle Sam
Bess doing her best to love her man
They pass by singin',
They pass by cryin',
Always lookin'.
And they keep on movin'!
When God make cripple,
He mean him to be lonely.
Night time, daytime, He got to travel that lonesome road.
Night time, day time, He gotta travel that lonesome road.
Summer Time and The Living is not easy
Baby is crying because she is hungry
Porgy picked up on sit & lie city policy
Can’t make his money
Can’t provide for his family
Existing & fighting in poverty
Bess singing and crying
My man is gone now
The Po po took him some how
Got him bowing down
Three strikes bail so high
Bess, back to the oldest occupation, selling her body
Just to get her man out of the penitentiary
I Got Plenty O’ Nothin’
Don’t need anything
Just give me my Porgy
Gentrification sweeping
Closed down Catfish Row
Here come those buzzards
Man & woman just working
Troubles are coming
Buzzards pack your things & fly from here
Porgy is young again look out all you politicians
It Ain’t Necessarily so
What is in the Bible It Ain’t Necessarily so
Everybody, queers kripples, all races
Jump over the broom get marry be happy
Darla, my Strawberry Woman with her red hair
Was wrapped up in Porgy’s chocolate skin
Oh Bess Where’s My Bess
Bess I want her now
Tell me the truth
Where is my girl
Where is my Bess
The state can’t get in my way
Dragging my feet across this country
Oh Lord I’m on my way
Illegal love
Some say
Porgy & Bess came a long way
Living but not like Romeo & Juliet
Being Black Kripple & poor real day image
From 1912 to the end of time
Surviving in the saying of Fredrick Douglas
“no struggle no progress”
That is today’s Porgy & Bess
By Leroy Moore
4/23/11