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My Man's Gone Now

aria composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by DuBose Heyward, written for the opera Porgy and Bess (1935)
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My Man's Gone Now

Summary

My Man's Gone Now is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (54 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • My Man's Gone Now's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • My Man's Gone Now's composer is recorded as George Gershwin[4].
  • My Man's Gone Now is part of Porgy and Bess[5].
  • My Man's Gone Now's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].
  • My Man's Gone Now's lyricist is recorded as Ira Gershwin[7].
  • My Man's Gone Now's lyricist is recorded as DuBose Heyward[8].
  • My Man's Gone Now's lyricist is recorded as Dorothy Heyward[9].
  • My Man's Gone Now's described at URL is recorded as http://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/m/my_mans_gone_now.html[10].
  • My Man's Gone Now's title is recorded as My Man's Gone Now[11].
  • My Man's Gone Now's first line is recorded as My man's gone now[12].
  • My Man's Gone Now's form of creative work is recorded as aria[13].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[14]

  • Genre(s): big band, jazz, jazz rock[15]

  • Community tags: big band, jazz, jazz rock[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 9b1feb10-1ca2-37e9-965b-dd03d5e2cb2e[17]

Body

Publication

My Man's Gone Now's language of work or name is recorded as English[6]. It is part of Porgy and Bess[5].

Why It Matters

My Man's Gone Now ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (54 views/month).[2]

Related Entities

George Gershwin Ira Gershwin

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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MLA “My Man's Gone Now.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/my-man-s-gone-now.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_my-man-s-gone-now_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{My Man's Gone Now}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/my-man-s-gone-now}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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