After his wedding, he recounts his time in India in a duet with his old army buddy Tiger, "The Cannon Song," while his new wife sings about him to her disapproving parents in "The Barbara Song."
After his wedding, he recounts his time in India in a duet with his old army buddy Tiger, "The Cannon Song," while his new wife sings about him to her disapproving parents in "The Barbara Song." After stopping at Wapping and singing the "Tango Ballad," he is arrested by Smith and sent to Newgate, where he sings "The Ballad of Pleasant Living." It is at the end of Act II that he and Jenny Diver make a famous quip about how eating comes before morality. Introduced in an opening ballad at Soho that compares him to a shark with "pearly white" teeth, this is FTP, which baritone-played husband of Polly Peachum, the bandit protagonist of The Threepenny Opera?
After his wedding, he recounts his time in India in a duet with his old army buddy Tiger, "The Cannon Song," while his new wife sings about him to her disapproving parents in "The Barbara Song."
{Macheath} or {Mackie Messer} or {Mack the Knife}