Ready to print
You have already purchased this music, but not yet printed it.
This page is just a preview and does not allow printing. To print your purchase, go to the My purchases page in your account and click the relevant print icon.
The Beggar's Opera: 25. Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat
Already purchased!
You have already purchased this score. To download and print the PDF file of this score, click the 'Print' button above the score. The purchases page in your account also shows your items available to print.
This score is free!
Buy this score and parts
The Beggar's Opera: 25. Thus When a Good Housewife Sees a Rat
$18.00
$1.80
from $1.80
Preview individual parts:
Instant download
You are purchasing high quality sheet music PDF files suitable for printing or viewing on digital devices.There are worse things about being incarcerated in Newgate Prison than one's imminent hanging? Indeed, thinks MacHeath - because the prison governor is one Mr Lockit, and his daughter Lucy is just one of many girls seduced and abandoned by MacHeath, and here she is come to gloat over his downfall.
The speed is tricky here, and it should go as fast is is possible for the singer to get the words out clearly. But Lucy is spitting feathers so spitting out the words is not inappropriate!
The tune is a (rather racy) song well-known at the time, called A Lovely Lass to a Friar Came.
A lovely lass to a friar came/To confess in the morning early In what, my dear, are you to blame?/Come tell to me sincerely I have done, sir, what I dare not name/With a lad that loves me dearly
