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The Beggar's Opera

by Benjamin Britten

 



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A curse attends a woman's love!
A fox may steal your hens, sir
A maid is like the golden ore
And Macheath, at liberty and at large...
And now our scene changes...
Bring us then more liquor!
But all scores have a reckoning
But perhaps he hath a heart
But to be sure, sir...
Can love be controlled by advice?
Come, sweet lass
Dear, dear father
Dear Mrs. Coaxer!
Dear sir, mention not my education
If Love the virgin's hear invade
If the hear of a man is depressed with cares
I know as well as any...
I, like a ship in storms, was tossed
In the days of my youth
Introduction
Is then his fate decreed, sir?
It is the pleasure of all...
It is your own choice
Jealousy, rage, love and fear
My heart was so free
Noble Captain, you are welcome...
No power on Earth can
Now I am a wretch indeed
O cruel, cruel case!
Oh, sir, if Peachum's heart
O Macheath, I will stay with thee
O ponder well...
Our Polly is a sad slut!
Ourselves, like the great
Overture
O! what pain it is to part!
Really, Mis Peachum!
Shall I not claim my own?
Success attend you!
Such language, brother!
The first time at the looking-glass
The girl shows such remorse...
The miser thus a shilling sees Macheath
Through all the employments of life
Thus gamesters united in friendship
Thus I stand like the Turk
Thus when a good housewife sees a rat
'Tis Woman that seduces all Mankind
Ungrateful Macheath!
We are ready, sir
Were I laid on Greenland's coast
What do I see?!
Which way shall I turn?
Why how now, Madam Flirt!
Women are bitter bad judges...
Would I might be hanged