Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Prologue: "Peter Grimes, I Here Advise You!" - Owen Brannigan/David Kelly/Peter Pears/Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Benjamin Britten

Lyrics by：Montagu Slater/George Crabbe

Composed by：Benjamin Britten

Peter Grimes I here advise you

Do not get another boy apprentice

Get a fisherman to help you

Big enough to stand up for himself

Our verdict is that William Spode your apprentice

Died in accidental circumstances

But that's the kind of thing people are apt to remember

But when the crowner sits upon it

Who can dare to fix the guilt

Silence

Your honour

Silence

Your honour like every other fisherman

I have to hire an apprentice I must have help

Then get a woman help you look after him

That's what I want but not yet

Why not

Not till I've stopped people's mouths

Stand down clear the court stand down

"Stand down" you say you wash your hands

The case goes on in people's minds

The charges that no court has made

Will be shouted at my head

Then let me speak let me stand trial

Bring the accusers into the hall

Let me thrust into their mouths

The truth itself the simple truth

When women gossip the result

Is someone doesn't sleep at night

But when the crowner sits upon it

Who can dare to fix the guilt

Clear the court

Clear the court

Clear the court

Clear the court