The Seven Deadly Sins — Scene 1. Sloth

The Seven Deadly Sins
Music by Kurt Weill, Libretto by Bertolt Brecht
English translation by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Directed by Joseph Cermatori
Music Direction by Steven Gearheart
Choreography by Tiffany Stewart
Yale Cabaret (New Haven, CT)
2007

FAMILY:
Will she now? … will our Anna pull herself together?
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil’s stock-pot!)
For she was always quite a one for an arm-chair;
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil’s stock-pot!)
Unless you came and hauled her off the mattress
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil’s stock-pot!)
The lazy slut would lie abed all morning.
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil’s stock-pot!)

Otherwise, Anna was, we must admit, a most respectful child,
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil’s stock-pot!)
Did what she was told and showed affection for her parents.
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil’s stock-pot!)
This is what we told her when she left home:
(Lazy Bones are for the Devil’s stock-pot!)
“Think of us, and mind you keep your nose down to the grind-stone.”

O Lord, look down upon our daughter
Show her the way that leads the Good to Thy reward
In all her doings prevent her and comfort her
Incline her heart to observe all Thy commandments
That her works on earth may prosper.