"Each day your sermons we are fed" "Urging us to forsake crime and sin" "But give us first our daily bread" "Then your moralizing may sink in" "THE THREEPENNY OPERA" "You who love out souls and your own bellies" "Should hasten to accept this verity" "Before it's too late to be wise" "Beefsteaks come first, then morality" "No poor man should want for money" "To enjoy his share of milk and honey" "For how does man live?" "How does man live?" "By harming another bloke" "By ill-treating, cheating other ordinary folk" "Man's only choice in this insanity" "Is to forget his own humanity" "So, gentlemen, make no mistake about man's needs" "To live, he must turn to evil deeds" "In dark of night, by pale moonlight" "Pursued by fear, a man takes flight" "A lifeless body lies on the ground" "Death comes without a sound" "The unlucky prey in a cruel rape" "Lies all alone, her mouth agape" "A hapless victim of civil anarchy" "The poor soul dies..." "There's Mackie!" "Burglary makes homes a hopeless mess" "Reducing owners to prostrate distress" "Picking pockets on the sly, Satan's lackey" "Pads softly by..." "There's Mackie!" "The flames they roar, the sparks they fly" "People trapped inside begin to fry" "No help to hand, they simply die" "A laugh floats back..." "There's Mackie!" "The night of terrors has its glut" "Somewhere in the crowd, a throat is cut" "And in the gutter, someone's lost his gut" "The fiend looks back..." "There's Mackie!" "In dark of night, by pale moonlight" "Pursued by fear, a man takes flight" "A lifeless body lies on the ground" "Death comes without a sound" "By pale moonlight A man takes flight" "A lifeless body on the ground." "Death comes without a sound" "May I offer you a drink, ladies?" "See we're not disturbed" " Is Mackie here?" " You and me, Jenny, what say?" "Leave the lady alone" "What's he butting in for?" "Look out for your wife's fancy man" "Tell him thanks a lot" "The best dancer in Soho" "Take your places" "A complete bridal outfit" "Brocade" "Captain's orders" "Wedding at ten past two a.m." "Anglo-Indian Company Warehouse Three." "Bring a priest" "A complete bridal outfit, brocade" "Furniture, four-poster, carpets." "And don't forget: a grandfather clock" "For delivery" "Properly dressed;" "don't come in that get-up" "I hope this is his last wedding" "For delivery" "For delivery" "For delivery" "J.M. Brown, Chief of Police, London" "Give us a hand" "About time!" "It's unbelievable!" "Is that all you hate to report, gentlemen?" "You're dealing with the Chief of Police!" "You let these burglars melt away under your very noses?" "How am I to maintain law and order during the Coronation?" "I warn you, let the slightest thing go wrong the slightest thing and I'll..." "What is it?" "A burglar, caught red-handed" "What's that?" "You caught a burglar?" "He's here?" "Bring him to me at once" "I'll show you how to deal with such riff-raff" "Hat off" "Caught red-handed, eh?" "This could mean years behind bars because I shall be merciless" "Do you hear me?" "Merciless" "Leave me alone with this fellow" "A letter?" "Impudence!" "You may go" "If anyone's there, hands up!" "Nobody?" "Our wedding can go ahead" "Bill Lawgen and Mary Syer" "To solemn matrimony came" "Only when they signed the register" "Did she learned her husband's name" ""So that's who Mary married", said she" "Do you see the moon over Soho?" "Yes, I see it, beloved" "Do you hear my heart beat, darling?" "Yes, I hear it, sweetheart" "Where you go, there will I go" "Where you go, there my love will be" "Preachings and solemn rites cannot" "Be deemed essential to the wedding knot" "Nor are orange blossoms to the bridal bed" "Love itself is the finest way to wed" "Enjoy your sweetmeats, no need to wait" "Then throw away the empty plate" "Love makes the most tempting repast" "Delectable, but it doesn't last" "Patience, Father, we'll be starting soon" "Everything of the best." "Eggs mayonnaise from Selfridge's." "Try some?" "Attention!" "Ten past two!" "Congratulations, Polly!" "Congratulations, Captain!" "It's just not good enough" "Champagne in wine glasses" "Hideous... hideous!" "How lovely!" "Everything stolen?" "Naturally" "A pity we've no home for it all" " Deplorable!" " The police, Captain" "And the grandfather clock?" "No clock?" "My wife is most displeased." "Everything's spoiled" "After all, I don't marry every day" "Father I'm so glad you could come to bless the happiest day of our lives" "Miss Peachum, who has lovingly consented to share my life" "Father!" "Won't you dine with us?" "Than kyou, but I must attend to a baptism" "I hope we'll soon need you for that, too" "Watch your tongue in a lady's presence!" "And where's my clock?" "Escort His Reverence" "I'm afraid it's not healthy around here" "This way, please;" "mind the stairs" "Must you dive in right away?" "I'm hungry, Mackie" "Can no one here do anything to entertain us?" "Is this to be just another dreary day?" "No one on guard?" "Must I do it myself?" "I'll try a song for you, then" "Time was I had my virtue." "If you remember, so had you" "Oft had I dreamed the day When first love came my way" "Charm he'd have and wealth" "Fresh linen and good health" "Alas, already I did know" "That my answer must be no" "No, I'd say without repine" "Moon, why do you shine?" "Why do you boats dream away?" "My heart has no words to say" "It is by far the better part" "Not to try to force the heart" "Love is never ruled by reason" "So till happiness comes to season" "The only way to go Is firmly to say no" "The first to come along Was both gallant and strong" "The second was as rich as Croesus." "The third swore love till hell frezzes" "Charm they had and wealth" "Fresh linen and good health" "A little kiss and I'd share their bliss" "But I said no" "No, I said, without repine" "Moon, why do you shine?" "Why do you boats dream away?" "My heart has no word to say" "It is by far the better part" "Not to try to force the heart" "Love is never ruled by reason" "So till happiness comes to season" "The only way to go Is firmly to say no" "Then one day there came a man, His cause he never pled" "He came to my room, His hat threw on my bed" "Charm he had not or wealth" "No fine linen or good health" "All he could offer me Was a share in misery" "But I didn't say no" "Yes, I simply said, without repine" "Moon, for us go on and shine" "Dance for us you boats with glee" "For now my heart confides in me" "It is by far the better part" "Not to try to force the heart" "For love there is no fitting season" "And the day bliss conquers reason" "Is not one for saying no" "What a lark!" "A real giggle!" "Lark, you idiot?" "That's art, that is" "What a load of cretins" "Look out... the Sheriff!" "Still appropriating what isn't yours?" "Burglary again?" "Good of you to remember an old friend" "Not at all." "I'm rather pressed for time, though" "Let me introduce Tiger Brown" "London's Chief of Police" "We fought together in India and the Sudan" "My wife Polly, née Peachum" "Did you say Peachum?" "You've nabbed old Peachum's daughter?" "Well, you're a brave man" " Why brave?" " Her father's King of the Soho Beggars" "Charmed, dear lady..." "Goodbye" "I'm sorry, but I must go" "I'm so busy ensuring that nothing goes wrong during Her Majesty's Coronation" "Has Scotland Yard anything on me?" "No, everything's been taken care of" "All modern conveniences for the younger man" "So that's Tiger Brown?" "Yes, we have our connections, you know" "Now for the big moment" " What's this?" " One last little surprise" "Billy Lawgen and Mary Syer" "To solemn matrimony came" "You've seen Polly Peachum's courtship and marriage" "Now see the power of the Beggar King self-styled "The poorest man in London"" "Any prospective beggar in London must be licenced by Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum  Co." " Twenty shillings" " Ten, Mr. Peachum" "Twenty and 50% of your take" "But then I'll have nothing" "Give and thou shalt be given" "Pitch, Baker Street." "Get your costume:" "Outfit C" "What's all that?" "The five types of misery most likely to arouse compassion and make people give money without further ado" "Outfit C" "Can't I have Outfit A?" "No; that's the young gentleman who's seen better days" "But that's what I am" "And why no one would be taken in" "Show them real suffering and they turn away" "Get ready and don't argue" "Hurry up, I can't hang about for ever" "I paid for a new coat" "I keep telling you to clean up the outfits" " What's this?" " My takings" "Is that all?" "What do expect with a thing like this?" "Call that a stump?" "Shoddy stuff!" "Try working; they need hands on the farms" "New coat" "Where's Polly?" " Let her sleep" " Sleep at this hour?" "She didn't come home?" "An ivory-handled stick?" "Mackie the Knifeman" "A gangster's moll!" "You little slut!" "Help me" "You'll divorce him" "I can't;" "I love him" "You'll feel my boot up your backside" "No use; my love is higher than that" "You'll see!" "After all the money we spent on her clothes, hats, shoes and the umbrella" "My reputation and a lifetime's hard work threatened by that rogue" "Polly will never be rid of him until he's hanged" "Denounce him to the Chief of Police" "Where to arrest him, though?" "I know." "He'll be with the whores at Turnbridge Street" "Sorry, the police can't do a thing" "That really is a shame and it's so unfair that you should suffer the consequences" "What's that?" "Unless you hang Mackie scandalous disruption of the Coronation will cost you your job" "An army of flea-bitten beggars and cripples will parade before the Queen" "Thousands of them outside tha cathedral with hardly grace the festive spectacle" "I shall drive them off immediately" "A charge will shift them" "Poor, helpless cripples mown down?" "What a shameful sight that would be" "Can't you imagine the horror, Mr. Brown?" "I'll call and have you arrested" "Repeat one word of this and I'll show you" "I am not the criminal, Mr. Brown merely a poor, honest man" "True, Mr. Peachum;" "you're a very fine fellow" "So am I" "But what do you expect me to do?" "You see, to arrest a man, you must first find him" "I can help you there" "One keeps tabs on a son-in-law." "You'll find him at Turnbridge Street" "You know, the whores" "A man who's not a fool Will try to use his head" "But heads are mostly things From which all but fleas have fled" "For duplicity, alas, Man really has no flair" "It's this cross the racketeer Always has to bear" "You think you're very clever Hatching out your plan" "Then you see your best-laid schemes Go flushing down the pan" "For this life, you see, Man isn't bad enough" "Don't try to be good, You'll find it much too tough" "You yearn for happiness, Try to grab it on the fly" "But no matter how you choose You see it pass you by" "In this life mankind assumes That it's on top of things" "All too soon such lofty pride Its own destruction brings" "Item 8." "Take only the cash from Oak Street" "No stocks or shares" "They attract thieves" "Jimmy Two's in charge of dynamiting the door" "If he blows himself up, he won't need paying" "Shut it!" "You get paid and your haul's only five gold watches this month" "I know it's not much..." "Item 9." "Do it at 8.30, when the fireworks start" "Great!" "The watchmen will be out watching" "With everyone drunk, it'll be money for jam" "You must pack and leave at once, Mackie" "My father's been to see Brown." "They're going to arrest you" "Fly, Mackie" "Fly?" "I'll fly to paradise with you!" "This is no time for joking" "Brown's changed his mind." "He said to tell you..." "He can't help you now" "Brown won't let me down" "My police record is clean" "Not any more; now it's full of horrible things" "It seems you deflowered two under-age sisters in Winchester" "They said they were thirty" "Added together, they were" "There's a grateful father-in-law for you" "You'll have to take over for me" "Gentlemen, I have to take a little trip" "During the Coronation?" "There'll be no fizz in the champagne with you gone" "During my absence, the business will be run by my wife" "What about the big bank job?" "Quiet, there!" "If we bring that off, it means moving on the bigger things" "We're leaving Soho for the heart of the City" "My heart is breaking, Mackie" "Just when we might have been so happy" "Mine, too, but go I must to return God knows when" "Our happiness was so brief, Mackie" "You think this is the end?" "You won't forget me when you are gone, Mackie?" "I could never forget you, my love." "Kiss me" "Promise to give Turnbridge Street a miss" "I love only you, my darling" "I'm taking charge now" "Our Captain can rest easy" "We'll pull through without him, won't we, gentlemen?" "I don't know, but I don't think a woman's the right man for the job" "No offence to you, madam" "You swine!" "No offence, naturally, or wouldn't you gentlemen have knocked him down?" "No offence there, either!" "She packs a punch!" "Sensational!" "Our Captain's lady's got the style all right" "Bravo, Polly!" "Bravo, Lady-Captain!" "Reckoning up every Thursday" "Someone for you, Jenny" "How lovely!" " The Queen's Coronation gown?" " It cost 5,000" "She can afford the best underwear" "Why would a queen need it?" "So Mackie's not coming?" "100 pounds reward for information leading to the arrest of Mackie "The Knifeman"" "He stole my daughter and married her" " Married her?" " Last night... a proper ceremony" "If he comes today will you signal from the window?" "Where's my coffee?" "I'll do it" "For God's sake, Mackie, why come here?" "Take it easy..." "My coffee!" "There's a warrant out for you" "I know, but I come here every Thursday" "No trifle is going to change that" "Congratulations on your marriage, Mackie" "It was splendid; a shame you couldn't be there" "Come in, Jenny" "Yes, read his palm, Jenny" "Why such a face, Jenny?" "Only the good news" "When the Westminster bells ring out, you'll find yourself in trouble" "My stick, I'm leaving" "Will you be back?" "You can bet on it" "Now I'm no better than a skivvy Make the beds, clean the privy" "Mag the Slag is what I'm called" "Last port of call for ashes hauled." "What once I was no one knows" "What once I was no one knows" "But when the new dawn's in the air People on the shore will stare" "And I shall smile." "Yes, I" "While people ask me why" "A proud ship set full sail" "One hundred cannons at its rail" "Will cross the harbour bar" "I'm still no better than a skivvy." "Make the beds, clean the privy" "Mag the Slag I'll still be called" "Last port of call for ashes hauled." "Tomorrow succeeds today although" "What once I was you still don't know" "But on that day of wonder When I hear the cannon thunder" "With laughter I shall roar" "As they tremble on the shore" "The proud ship set full sail" "One hundred cannons at its rail" "Will pound the harbour shore" "A hundred sailors will swarm ashore, Making bloody crosses on each door" "Before me they'll then bring" "Abject in chains, whining" "All the good gentlemen they find." "Yes, each and all of your kind" "Then will say the one I wait for" "Which of these dies on the shore?" "All, all, softly shall I say" "And as they do, I'll shout hip hooray" "The proud ship sets sail once more" "To leave behind the pain and gore" "And take me to a brand new shore" "Do you remember the old days, Jenny, before my star rose over the city?" "I may be Mackie now, but I shall never forget you, Jenny" "Can a gentleman say more?" "Hurry, you've been betrayed" "Still only one way out?" "After him... the window!" "You seemed in a hurry" "I hadn't met you then" "Someone waiting for you?" "You might have to wait" "I live right here" "What's going on?" "Don't worry about it" "He got away!" "Those tarts helped him" "Tarts?" "I know which tart" "Brown's the name" "Tiger Brown helped out his friend" "All right, we're not playing games any more, Mr. Brown" "Let's see about your Coronation" "Leaving already?" "Business calls, and business comes first" " But you'll be back?" " Naturally" "Well done!" "Lead the way" "You have witnessed Mackie's swaggering insouciance" "Now see how a woman in love can work mischief to make things turn out in ways you couldn't foresee" "The Members of the Board" "Gentlemen, one can rob a bank..." "Or use it to fleece others!" "...or one can achieve the same results through legal business channels" "As my father says:" ""Only a fool turns to theft these days..." ""...now that we can work legally"" "My husband..." "our Director, that is has unfortunately been obliged to go abroad" "But he would approve our new venture" "With money lying fallow, we have taken over this bank" "This offers much more scope than..." " Plundering a few lousy safes" " Those days are behind us" "We must start thinking big" "True to our time-honoured traditions and with unlimited assets to call upon we shall win the public's confidence and build an unshakeable financial edifice" "Our personnel, I might add, must be beyond reproach, Mr. Verduron" "Any fool can pick pockets or pull off petty crimes" "No more foolery;" "we mean business" "Anyone not up to it can leave now" "I think we've a lot to learn" "In here, Mr. Brown" " Do you want to see him?" " God forbid..." "No, you do it" "Give him a decent meal, Smith." "With some good wine" "Cigarettes, too?" "Of course... no, cigars;" "he only smokes cigars" "Poor fellow... here are two" "They'll see him out" "No word for me from Brown?" "Mr. Brown is very upset... all his worries about the Coronation, you know" "Tell me, Smith... are these the heaviest handcuffs you have?" "Could you change them, as a favour?" "Our prices range from one to ten pounds" "It depends how much you want to spend" "How much for none at all?" "Fifty" "What will it be for dinner, Captain?" "What's on the menu?" "Not prison grub;" "whatever you like" "Condemned man's last meal?" "Now you can move more freely, Captain" "That's for someone else" "What about your dinner?" "Leave it to me; the other gentlemen had no complaints" "God created us in his image, too" "Close not your ears to misery" "Troop 10, present and correct" "They're to join up with Troop 4 at Nelson's Column by eight o'clock" "With real cripples?" "Impossible" "Do it!" "Put the worst of the lot on the flanks" "Let our gentry have a good look" "The Horse Guards mounting up" " They'll trample us" " At least we'd get a bed" "What if they open fire?" "At this moment, 1,432 of your comrades march to pay homage to the Queen" "And you the élite of beggardom, shall add your lustre to the ceremony" "You would long be dead in the sewers of Turnbridge had my tireless efforts not shown how your misery could earn your livings" "The rich are responsible for your suffering but cannot bear to look upon it" "Their hearts are hard, but their nerves are susceptible" "We are going to make those nerves shrink in horror from our misery as we display the terrible wounds our rags cannot quite conceal" "Have no fear" "The Queen will not permit a bayonet charge on cripples" "Stop it, for the love of God!" "Mackie's a bank director now" "Call them back; our Polly will be seated with the distinguished guests" "Leave it to me" "Listen to me!" "Come back!" "You think you're very clever Hatching out your plan" "Then you see your best-laid schemes Go flushing down the pan" "For this life, you see, Man isn't bad enough" "Don't try to be good, You'll find it much too tough" "Yes, at once... 3,000." "You understand?" "I'm not a bit upset, gentlemen" "But Tiger Brown letting him be arrested, that must mean something" "Here's the surety for his release" "10,000 pounds to be delivered to the Chief of Police" "I'll take it!" "It's not safe out just now" "That's why I shall entrust it to our trusty messenger here" "Eleven o'clock... why aren't you yet at the Stock Exchange?" "Stop, go back!" "Don't go any further!" "They'll open fire, but there's still time..." "Stop!" "No visitors allowed" "Please, Smith dear" "Suppose you're seen?" "I can't take the risk" "Just for a moment, to see the rogue one last time" "Mackie and I were together, you know" "You can see me tonight" "No, it's impossible" "That's all I needed!" " Couldn't you bother to wear make-up?" " You swine... after all you did to me!" "Keep quiet!" "Think I don't know about your sweetie?" "Your dinner, Captain" "Shut up, or you'll make me cross" "I love him so" "I'd rather the gallows got him than another woman" "You're such a darling, Smith" "You understand, don't you?" " Three hundred beggars in Piccadilly" " Disperse them" "Baker Street cordon broken" " They're all over the Coronation route" " Arrest the lot of them" "Use truncheons" "No, idiot!" "I can't have thousands of beggars brained on Coronation Day" "You're stark, staring mad" " What do you want?" " I've the surety for Mr. Mackie" " What have you brought?" " The surety for Mr. Mackie" "Get me Department C. At once" "Brown here." "Release Mr. Mackie immediately" "What... escaped?" "Stop." "Give me that" "Now go, it's confiscated" "I was so worried about you, Mackie, with those brutes after you" "Did you keep yourself pretty for me?" "I'm too pleased to see you to take in what you say" "Have you been faithful to me?" "As charming as ever." "I'm pleased with you" "Have you read the mail?" "Never mind business till you kiss me" "Promise me that never again..." "We're late for the celebrations" "Hordes of beggars broke up the procession!" "Close the shutters" "Any whisky about?" "Anybody here?" "I'm ruined..." "I'm no longer the Chief of Police" "A bank can always use an ex-police chief as Chairman of the Board" "How much can you invest?" "Invest?" "10,000 pounds" "Mackie's surety..." "I salvaged it" "See, you dolts?" "There's a pupil worthy of me" "My dear Polly, gentlemen" "Tiger Brown, by inscrutable royal decree was invested with an authority not in his nature exercising which, he never let me down" "Providence has now restored him to us" "As a loyal friend he has earned refuge with an old comrade-in-arms" "Remember our soldiering in India?" "Ah, those were the good old days" "Jim was one, the other John." "Their sarge was George Carson" "Rank and file it's all the same, No one asks whence you came" "A soldier's lot's no more Than marching to cannons' roar" "From the hills of Peshawar To the coast of Malabar" "Hot or cold, wet or dry, In the end they all die" "For wrong or right, Agin black or white" "Those who fight Are dead by night" "Johnny was the worse for whisky, Jimmy's tum was acting frisky" "But answering the sergeant's cry Off they march to do or die" "A soldier's life's no more Than marching to cannons' roar" "From the hills of Peshawar To the coast of Malabar" "Hot or cold, wet or dry, In the end they all die" "For wrong or right, Agin black or white" "Those who fight Are dead by night" "John and Jim are gone" "So is George Carson" "But plenty still are willing" "To sign on for the shilling" "A soldier's lot's no more Than marching to cannons' roar" "From the hills of Peshawar To the coast of Malabar" "Hot or cold, wet or dry, In the end they all die" "For wrong or right, Agin black or white" "Those who fight Are dead by night" "Shouldn't the poorest man in London and wealthy Mackie join in a common cause?" "The poorest man in London is bankrupt a poor devil like any other" "Precisely; and what I learned today was the power of poverty" "With your money and my experience we can launch an enterprise bigger than anyone's wildest dreams" "If the poor are so powerful, why do they need us?" "Because they don't know we need them" "Now we'll have a happy ending" "Like in movies, neat and pat" "Lots of money, there for spending" "Makes it easy to be that" "If rivals try a dirty trick" "One will quickly forge ahead" "The other learns his lesson quick" "And both grab the poor man's bread" "Some are creatures of the night" "Others spin their webs by day" "At least these work in open sight" "In darkness the others melt away" "THE END english subtitles transcribed by .:" "Norgen (norgen@centrum.cz) :."