Songs From The Beggar’s Opera: Air Xxvii-“green Sleeves” Poem by John Gay

Songs From The Beggar’s Opera: Air Xxvii-“green Sleeves”

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Since laws were made, for every degree,
To curb vice in others, as well as me,
I wonder we han’t better company
Upon Tyburn tree.
But gold from law can take out the sting;
And if rich men, like us, were to swing,
’Twould thin the land, such numbers to string
Upon Tyburn tree.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Laura Burns 31 August 2014

Easy to see from a song like this how Bertolt Brecht was able to get inspiration for The Threepenny Opera from Gay's work

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