Songs as Lists
Found this wee post over at Ratti's gaff.
So I thought I'd give it a try;
Individual In Question;
Mac The Knife (aka MacHeath)
Individual's Activities;
Sneaking around corners (confirmed)
Spending like a sailor (confirmed)
Something rash (unconfirmed)
Items Involved & Their Purpose (where known);
Jack knife (kept out of sight)
Fancy gloves (to avoid traces of red)
Tug boat (for dropping cement bag)
Cement bag (for weight)
Other Persons Involved (& Their Actions);
Unknown body (oozing red)
Louie Miller (disappeared - believed deceased)
Sukey Tawdry (unknown - believed deceased)
Jenny Diver (unknown - believed deceased)
Polly Peachum (unknown - believed deceased)
Lucy Brown (unknown - believed deceased)
3 Comments:
I can't quite remember but I believe the ladies in that list are believed alive but all engaged (without knowledge of the others), to subject of said list.
The research I did to confirm the lyrics suggests that the story it's based on features the deaths of the ladies in question. Macheath in the story is not a nice man.
It comes from The Threepenny Opera and Macheath is a very bad man. Polly Peachum was his wife but he also had a bunch of hookers he liked to shack up with. I think they all survived to the end and made up in true G&S style. Well if Gilbert and Sullivan were into themes of starvation, violent crime and marxism anyway...
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