being assembled. Soon it becomes clear that neither Polly nor the gang members can, or are willing to, raise any money, and Macheath prepares to die. He laments his fate and poses the 'Marxist' questions: "What's picking a lock compared to buying shares? What's breaking into a bank compared to founding one? What's murdering a man compared to employing one?" (These questions did not appear in the original version of the work, but first appeared in the musical Happy End, another Brecht/Weill/Hauptmann collaboration, in 1929 – they may in fact have been written not by Brecht, but by Hauptmann). Macheath asks everyone for forgiveness ("Grave Inscription"). Then a sudden and intentionally comical reversal: Peachum announces that in this opera mercy will prevail over justice and that a messenger on horseback will arrive ("Walk to Gallows"); Brown arrives as that messenger and announces that Macheath has been pardoned by the queen and granted a title, a castle and a pension. The cast then sings the Finale, which ends with a plea that wrongdoing not be punished too harshly as life is harsh enough. Musical numbers Prelude 1. Ouverture 2. Die Moritat von Mackie Messer ("The Ballad of Mack the Knife" – Street singer) Act 1 3. Morgenchoral des Peachum (Peachum's Morning Choral – Peachum, Mrs Peachum) 4. Anstatt dass-Song (Instead of Song – Peachum, Mrs Peachum) 5. Hochzeits-Lied (Wedding Song – Four Gangsters) 6. Seeräuberjenny (Pirate Jenny – Polly) 7. Kanonen-Song (Cannon Song – Macheath, Brown) 8. Liebeslied (Love Song – Polly, Macheath) 9. Barbarasong (Barbara Song – Polly) 10. I. Dreigroschenfinale (First Threepenny Finale – Polly, Peachum, Mrs Peachum) Act 2 11. Melodram (Melodrama – Macheath) 11a. Polly's Lied (Polly's Song – Polly) 12. Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit (Ballad of Sexual Dependency – Mrs Peachum) 13. Zuhälterballade (Pimp's Ballad or Tango Ballad – Jenny, Macheath) 14. Ballade vom angenehmen Leben (Ballad of the Pleasant Life – Macheath) 15. Eifersuchtsduett (Jealousy Duet – Lucy, Polly) 15b. Arie der Lucy (Aria of Lucy – Lucy) 16. II. Dreigroschenfinale (Second Threepenny Finale – Macheath, Mrs Peachum, Chorus) Act 3 17. Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit menschlichen Strebens (Song of the Insufficiency of Human Struggling – Peachum) 17a. Reminiszenz (Reminiscence) 18. Salomonsong (Solomon Song – Jenny) 19. Ruf aus der Gruft (Call from the Grave – Macheath) 20. Grabschrift (Grave Inscription – Macheath) 20a. Gang zum Galgen (Walk to Gallows – Peachum) 21. III.