It’s from Bertolt Brecht and in the original poem the line was “show us the way to the next pretty boy” and was used by Kurt Weill in his political satire opera about Weimar Germany.
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Weill continued to work with Brecht on the musical Happy End (1929), best known for the songs "Surabaya Johnny", "Bilbao Song", and "Sailor's Tango"; the children's opera Der Jasager (1930); and the opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930), best known for "Alabama Song" (later recorded by The Doors, among many others).[25]
Weill's working association with Brecht, although successful, came to an end over politics in 1930. Though Weill associated with socialism,[21] after Brecht tried to push their work even further in a left-wing direction, Weill commented, according to his wife Lotte Lenya, that he was unable to "set the Communist Manifesto to music."[26]
It’s from Bertolt Brecht and in the original poem the line was “show us the way to the next pretty boy” and was used by Kurt Weill in his political satire opera about Weimar Germany.
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