Gay, Britten: The Beggar's Opera

"If Poverty Be a Title to Poetry"

"Through All the Employments of Life"

"Women Are Bitter Bad Judges in These Cases. If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear"

"A Maid Is Like the Golden Ore"

"Our Polly Is a Sad Slut"

"The Girl Shows Such a Readiness. O Polly, You Might Have Toyed and Kissed"

"A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir"

"Now I Am a Wretch Indeed. Pretty Polly Say"

"Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast"

"The Miser Thus a Shilling Sees"

"Success Attend You. Let Us Take the Road"

"If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares"

"Dear Mrs Coaxer, You're Welcome. Youth's the Season Made for Joys"

"But to Be Sure. The Gamesters and Lawyers Are Jugglers Alike. At the Tree I Shall Suffer with Pleasure"

"Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat"

"It Is the Pleasure of All You Fine Men. How Cruel Are the Traitors"

"The First Time at the Looking-Glass"

"Fortune Be with You, Lucy"

"Such Language, Brother! When You Censure the Age"

"O Macheath! I Will Stay with Thee Till Death. Thus When the Swallow"

"Really, Miss Peachum, You Expose Yourself! Cease Your Funning"

"No Pow'r on Earth Can E'er Divide"

"But All Scores Have a Reckoning"

"Ungrateful Macheath!"

"And Macheath, At Liberty and at Large.The Modes of the Court"

"Bring Us Then More Liquor! What Gudgeons Are We Men"

"In the Days of My Youth"

"Jealousy, Rage, Love and Fear. I'm Like a Skiff on the Ocean Tossed"

"A Curse Attends a Woman's Love"

"But Perhaps He Hath a Heart Not Capable of It. Among the Men Coquets We Find"

"What Do I See! Oh! Macheath Again in Custody! Hither, Dear Husband, Turn Your Eyes"

"Which Way Shall I Turn Me"

"Dear, Dear Father, Sink the Evidence. When My Hero in Court Appears"

"Ourselves, Like the Great"

"O Cruel, Cruel Case"

"Thus I Stand Like the Turk"