Yes, they do as does Gershwin's own (which Grainger's version is obviously based upon).
It occurs to me that there are some songs where the words of the chorus are not fully comprehensible if the introductory verse is omitted, for example Cole Porter's comedy song "The physician" or Kern's "Bill" from Showboat.
Another song which, in my opinion should never have its verse omitted is Friml's "Indian Love Call" from Rose Marie; "When the lone lagoon stirs in the Spring, welcoming home some swany-white wing"....absolutely lovely. Friml obviously wasn't a pupil of Dvorak for nothing !
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