Cave Nick Mack The Knife Lyrics

Mack The Knife Lyrics

Nick covered this in a segment in September Songs: A Tribute to Kurt Weill 

 

 

 See the shark with teeth like razors

 And he wears them in his face

 And Macheath has got a knife

 But not in such an obvious place

 

 

 Now see the shark, how red his fins are

 As he slashes at his prey

 Mack the Knife wears fancy gloves

 Which gives a minimum away

 

 

 By the Thames' turbid waters

 Men abruptly tumble down

 Well is it plague, or is it cholera

 Or because Macky's in town?

 

 

 And the child bride, in her nighty

 Whose assailant's still at large

 Violated in her slumbers

 Macky how much did you charge?

 

 

 In the ghastly fire in Soho

 Seven children had a go

 In the crowd stands Mack the Knife

 But he isn't asked and he don't know

 

 

 In the crowd stands Mack The Knife

 But he ain't asked and he don't know