Porgy & Bess Medley - Patti Austin

Listen to your mother warn you

Fore you start a traveling

Women, they born you, love you, and mourn you

But a woman is a sometime thing

Yes a woman is a sometime thing

Your mama is the first to name you

And she’ll tie you to her apron strings

Then she’ll shame you, and she’ll blame you

Till your woman comes to claim you

Cause a woman is a sometime thing

Yes a woman is a sometime thing

Don’t you never let a woman grieve you

Just cause she’s got your wedding ring

She’ll love you and deceive you

Then she’ll take your clothes and leave you

Cause a woman is a sometime thing

Yes a woman is a sometime thing

Yes a woman is a sometime thing

Yes a woman is a sometime thing

Summertime

And the living is easy

Fish are jumping

And the cotton is high

Oh your daddy’s rich

And you’re ma is good looking

So hush little baby

Don’t you cry

One of these mornings

You’re gonna rise up singing

Then you’ll spread your wings

And you’ll take to the sky

But till that morning cuz

There ain’t nothing can harm you

With daddy and mama standing by

Ooh

There’s a boat that’s leavin' soon for New York

Come with me, that’s where we belong, baby

You and me can live that high life in New York

Come with me, that’s where we belong

That’s where we belong

It' ain’t necessarily so

It ain’t necessarily so

Things that you’re liable

To read in the bible

It ain’t necessarily so

David was small but oh my

Little David was small but oh my

He fought big Goliath

Who fell down and dieth

Little David was small but oh my

Scared he was

Scared he was

Jonah he lived in a whale

Jonah he lived in a whale

For he made his home in that fishes abdomen oh

Jonah he lived in a whale

Moses was found in a stream

Don’t you know that Moses was found in a stream

He floated on the water till old Pharaoh’s daughter

She fished him she says from that stream

Scared he was

Scared he was

It ain’t necessarily so

Said it ain’t necessarily so

Well you tell all your children that the devil is a billain

But it ain’t, ain’t necessarily so

To get into heaven

Don’t snap for a seven

If clean, don’t have no fault

Oh take the gospel whenever it’s possible

But with a grain of salt

The pharaohs live 900 years

The pharaohs live 900 years

But who calls that living

When no gal’s gonna give in

To no man who wants 900 years

I’m preaching the sermon to show

That it ain’t nessa, ain’t nessa

Ain’t nessa, ain’t nessa, ain’t necessarily so

I’ve got plenty of nuttin'

Nuttin' is plenty for me

I got not car, got no mule

I got not misery

Folks with plenty of plenty

They’ve got a lock on the door

Afraid somebody’s gonna rob em

While they’re out making more, what for

I got not lock on the door, that’s no way to be

They can steal the rug from the floor, that’s ok with me

Cause the things that I prize

Like the stars in the skies

Are all free

I’ve got plenty of nuttin'

Nuttin' is plenty for me

I’ve got my guy, got my song

Got Heaven the whole day long

Got my guy, got my Lord

Got my song

I got plenty of nuttin'

Nuttin’s plenty for me

I’ve got the sun, got the moon

Got the deep blue sea

Folks with plenty of plenty

Gotta pray the whole darn day

Seems with plenty

You sure gotta worry

How to the devil away, away

I ain’t frettin about hell till the time arrives

Never wary long as I’m well

Never one to strive to be good to be bad, what the hell I’m just glad

I’m alive

I’ve got plenty of nuttin'

Nuttin’s plenty for me

Got my guy, got my song

Got heaven the whole way long

Got my man, got my Lord

Got my song, got my man

There’s a boat that’s leaving soon for New York

Come with me, that’s where we belong

That’s where we belong