John Gay: The Beggar's Opera

Introduction. If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry (Beggar, Player)

Air 1. An Old Woman Clothed in Gray (Peachum)

Air 2. The Bonny Gray-Ey'd Morn (Filch, Peachum)

Dialogue. What of Bob Booty, Husband? (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)

Air 4. Why Is Your Faithful Slave Disdain'd? (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)

Dialogue. Never Was a Man More Out the Way in an Argument (Mrs Peachum)

Air 5. Of All the Simple Things We Do (Mrs Peachum)

Dialogue. I Know as Well as Any of the Fine Ladies (Polly)

Air 7. Oh London Is a Fine Town (Mrs Peachum, Peachum, Polly)

Air 9. O Jenny, O Jenny, Where Hast Thou Been? (Mrs Peachum, Polly)

Dialogue. Dear Wife, Be a Little Pacified (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)

Dialogue. 'Twas Only Nimming Ned (Polly, Peachum, Mrs Peachum)

Air 13. Le printemps rappelle aux armes (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)

Dialogue. Now I'm a Wretch, Indeed (Polly)

Air 15. Pray, Fair One, Be Kind (Macheath, Polly)

Air 17. Gin Thou Wert Mine Awn Thing (Polly, Macheath)

Dialogue. But Pr'ythee, Matt, What Is Become of Thy Brother Tom? (Ben, Matt, Jemmy, Jack, Wat, Robin, Ned, Harry)

Dialogue. Gentlemen, Well Met (Macheath, Matt)

Dialogue. What a Fool Is a Fond Wench! (Macheath)

Air 21. Would You Have a Young Virgin (Macheath, Drawer)

Dialogue. Dear Mrs Coaxer, You Are Welcome (Macheath)

Air 22. Cotillon. Youths the Season Made for Joys (Macheath, Jenny, Coaxer, Vixen, Brazen)

Air 24. When Once I Lay with Another Man's Wife (Jenny, Tawdry, Macheath)

Air 25. When First I Laid Siege to My Chloris (Macheath, Peachum)

Dialogue. Noble Captain, You Are Welcome (Lockit, Macheath)

Air 26. Courtiers, Courtiers Think It No Harm (Macheath)

Dialogue. You Base Man, You! (Lucy)

Air 27, A Lovely Lass to a Friar Came (Luch, Macheath)

Air 29. The Sun Had Loos'd His Weary Teams (Macheath, Lucy)

Air 30. How Happy Are We (Barrett). When You Censure the Age (Lockit, Peachum)

Dialogue. Whence Come You, Hussy? (Lockit, Lucy)

Air 31. Of a Noble Race Was Shenkin (Lucy, Lockit)

Dialogue. Though the Ordinary Was Out of the Way Today (Lucy, Macheath)

Air 33. London Ladies. If You at an Office Solicit Your Due (Macheath, Lucy)

Dialogue. Where Is My Dear Husband? (Polly, Macheath, Lucy)

Air 34. All in the Downs (Sandoni). Thus When the Swallow, Seeking Prey (Polly, Macheath, Lucy)

Air 36, Irish Trot. I'm Bubbled (Polly, Lucy, Macheath)

Air 38. Good-Morrow, Gossip Joan. Why How Now, Madam Flirt? (Lucy, Polly)

Dialogue. Where's My Wench? (Peachum, Polly)

Air 39. Irish Howl (Vanbrughe). No Power on Earth Can Eer Divide (Polly)

Air 40. The Lass of Patie's Mill (Lucy)

Dialogue. To Be Sure, Wench (Lockit, Lucy)

Air 41. If Loves a Sweet Passion (Lucy, Lockit)

Dialogue. Peachum Then Intends to Outwit Me (Lockit)

Air 43. Packington's Pound (Lockit, Lucy)

Dialogue. I Am Sorry, Gentlemen (Macheath)

Air 44. Lillibulero (Attrib. Purcell). The Modes of the Court so Common Are Grown (Macheath, Ben, Matt)

Dialogue. The Coronation Account, Brother Peachum (Lockit, Peachum)

Air 45. Down in the North Country (Lockit, Peachum, Servant)

Dialogue. Dear Mrs Dye, Your Servant (Peachum, Trapes, Lockit)

Air 46. A Shepherd Kept Sheep (Trapes, Peachum, Lockit)

Dialogue. Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear (Lucy)

Air 47. One Evening, Having Lost My Way (Lucy, Filch)

Dialogue. Dear Madam, Your Servant (Lucy)

Air 48. Now Roger, I'll Tell Thee, Because Thou'rt My Son (Lucy, Polly)

Air 50. Would Fate to Me Belinda Give (Polly, Lucy)

Dialogue. All This Wheedling of Lucy Cannot Be for Nothing (Polly)

Dialogue. Set Your Heart to Rest, Captain (Lockit, Peachum, Lucy, Polly)

Air 52. The Last Time I Went o'er the Moor (Polly, Lucy, Macheath, Peachum)

Air 54. I Am a Poor Shepherd Undone (Polly, Lucy)

Air 56. A Cobbler There Was (Attrib. Leveridge) (Lockit, Peachum)

Dialogue. Follow Them, Filch, to the Court (Polly, Lucy)

Air 58-66. O Cruel, Cruel, Cruel Case! . Why Are Mine Eyes Still Flowing (Macheath)

Dialogue. For My Having Broke Prison (Macheath, Matt, Jailer)

Dialogue. My Dear Lucy, My Dear Polly (Macheath, Polly, Lucy)

Air 68. All You That Must Take a Leap. Would I Might Be Hang'd! (Lucy, Polly, Macheath, Jailer)

Dialogue. But, Honest Friend (Player, Beggar)

Dialogue. So, It Seems, I Am Not Left to My Choice (Macheath, Company)