[MACHEATH] Now those among you full of pious teaching Who teach us to renounce the major sins Should know before you do your heavy preaching Our middle's empty, there it all begins Your vices and our virtues are so dear to you So learn the simple truth from this our song Wherever you aspire, whatever you may do First feed the face, and then talk right and wrong For even honest folk may act like sinners Unless they've had their customary dinners
[WOMAN] What keeps a man alive?
[MACHEATH] What keeps a man alive? He lives on others He likes to taste the first, then eat them whole if he can (spoken) Forgets that they're supposed to be his brothers (sung) That he himself was ever called a man
[ENSEMBLE] Remember if you wish to stay alive For once do something bad and you'll survive!
[MRS. PEACHUM] You warn us with appropriate caresses That virtue, humble virtue always wins Now please, before your moral fervor presses Our middle's empty, there it all begins Oh, you who dote on our despair and your desire May learn the simple truth from this our song Whatever you may do, whatever you aspire First feed the face, and then talk right and wrong For even saintly folk may act like sinners Unless they've had their customary dinners
[MAN] What keeps a man alive?
[MRS. PEACHUM] What keeps a man alive? He lives on others He likes to taste the first, then eat them whole if he can Forgets that they're supposed to be his brothers That he himself was ever called a man
[ENSEMBLE] Remember if you wish to stay alive For once do something bad and you'll survive!Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
