LIBRETTO/SCRIPT (Please use this version - there are sundrie different versions out there with different songs and different people singing different things and it would all get very confusing otherwise! In particular, the libretto's word is final as to who is singing which song. If the score says someone else is doing it, don't believe it. This version of the script is my adaptation for the sheet music I have available of the Project Gutenburg e-text. The sheet music is scanned from a 1920 score, so should be out of copyright; the mp3s, however, whilst from an obscure and bargain-basement recording, are still in copyright. Please treat them as if I were lending you the CD, and delete them once you've finished with them!)
Instrumental numbers:
Overture PDF MP3
French Tune PDF (no MP3)
The Escape of Macheath PDF MP3
Interlude PDF (no MP3)
Newgate Prison Music PDF (no MP3)
Incidental Music PDF (no MP3)
Interlude 2 PDF (no MP3)
Entrance of Lucy PDF MP3
Hornpipe PDF (no MP3)
Songs sung by Macheath:
(with Polly) Pretty Polly, Say PDF MP3
My Heart was so Free PDF MP3
(with Polly) Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast PDF MP3
(with Polly) O What Pain it is to Part PDF MP3
If the Heart of a Man PDF MP3
At the Tree I shall Suffer with Pleasure PDF MP3
Man may Escape from Rope and Gun PDF MP3
The First Time at the Looking-glass PDF (no MP3)
How Happy I Could be with Either PDF MP3
(with Matt of the Mint and Chorus) The Modes of the Court so Common are Grown PDF MP3
Which Way Shall I Turn Me? PDF MP3
The Charge is Prepar'd PDF MP3
O Cruel Case PDF MP3
(with Polly and Lucy) Would I Might be Hang'd PDF MP3
(with everyone) Thus I Stand Like the Turk PDF MP3
Songs sung by Polly:
Virgins are like the Fair Flower PDF MP3
Can Love be Control'd by Advice PDF MP3
(with Mrs. Peachum) O Polly, you might have Toy'd and Kiss'd PDF MP3
I, like a Ship in Storms, was Tost PDF MP3
O Ponder Well PDF MP3
The Turtle thus with Plaintive Crying PDF (no MP3)
(with Macheath) Pretty Polly, SayPDF MP3
(with Macheath) Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast PDF MP3
(with Macheath) O What Pain it is to PartPDF MP3
Thus when the Swallow PDF (no MP3)
(with Lucy) I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled PDF MP3
Cease Your Funning PDF MP3
(with Lucy) Why How Now, Madam Flirt PDF (no MP3)
(with Lucy, Peachum & Lockit) No Power on Earth PDF (no MP3)
(with Lucy) A Curse Attend that Woman's Love PDF (no MP3)
(with Lucy) Hither, Dear Husband PDF MP3
(with Macheath and Lucy) Would I Might be Hang'd PDF MP3
(with everyone) Thus I Stand Like the Turk PDF MP3
Songs sung by Peachum:
Through all the Employments of Life PDF MP3
(with Mrs. Peachum) Our Polly is a Sad Slut PDF MP3
A Fox may Steal your Hens, Sir PDF MP3
(with Lockit) When you Censure the Age PDF MP3
(with Lucy, Polly & Lockit) No Power on Earth PDF (no MP3)
(with Lockit) Thus Gamesters United PDF (no MP3)
(with everyone) Thus I Stand Like the Turk PDF MP3
Songs sung by Mrs Peachum:
If any Wench Venus's Girdle wear PDF (no MP3)
If Love the Virgin's Heart Invade PDF MP3
A Maid is like the Golden Ore PDF MP3
(with Mr. Peachum) Our Polly is a Sad Slut PDF MP3
(with Polly) O Polly, you might have Toy'd and Kiss'd PDF MP3
(with everyone) Thus I Stand Like the Turk PDF MP3
Songs sung by Lockit:
(with Peachum) When you Censure the Age PDF MP3
You'll Think ere Many Days Ensure PDF (no MP3)
(with Lucy, Peachum & Polly) No Power on Earth PDF (no MP3)
(with Peachum) Thus Gamesters United PDF (no MP3)
(with everyone) Thus I Stand Like the Turk PDF MP3
Songs sung by Filch:
Tis Woman that Seduces all Mankind PDF MP3
(with everyone) Thus I Stand Like the Turk PDF MP3
Songs sung by Lucy:
Thus when a Good Housewife Sees a Rat PDF (no MP3)
How Cruel are the Traitors PDF MP3
Is then his Fate Decreed PDF (no MP3)
(with Polly) I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled PDF MP3
(with Polly) Why How Now, Madam Flirt PDF (no MP3)
(with Polly, Peachum & Lockit) No Power on Earth PDF (no MP3)
My Love is all Madness and Folly PDF (no MP3)
I'm Like a Skiff on the Ocean Tost PDF MP3
(with Polly) A Curse Attend that Woman's Love PDF (no MP3)
Come, Sweet lass PDF MP3
(with Polly) Hither, Dear Husband PDF MP3
(with Polly and Macheath) Would I Might be Hang'd PDF MP3
(with everyone) Thus I Stand Like the Turk PDF MP3
Songs sung by Matt of the Mint:
(with chorus) Fill Every Glass PDF MP3
(with chorus) Let us Take the Road PDF MP3
(with Macheath and Chorus) The Modes of the Court so Common are Grown PDF MP3
(with everyone) Thus I Stand Like the Turk PDF MP3
Songs sung by Jenny Diver:
(with chorus) Before the Barn-Door Crowing PDF MP3
(with everyone) Thus I Stand Like the Turk PDF MP3
Songs sung by Diana Trapes:
In the Days of my Youth PDF MP3
(with everyone) Thus I Stand Like the Turk PDF MP3
Songs sung by the Chorus:
(men only, with Matt of the Mint) Fill Every Glass PDF MP3
(men only, with Matt of the Mint) Let us Take the Road PDF MP3
(women only) Youth's the Season PDF MP3
(women only, with Jenny Diver) Before the Barn-Door Crowing PDF MP3
(with Macheath and Matt of the Mint) The Modes of the Court so Common are Grown PDF MP3
LIBRETTO/SCRIPT (Transcribed by me from a paper copy - I believe this is the only copy on't interweb at the moment. Feel free to distribute more widely - since it dates from 1689 there are unlikely to be copyright issues!)