Fitzgerald Ella Mack The Knife Lyrics

Mack The Knife Lyrics

Mack the Knife 

  

 -Artist: Bobby Darin 

 -the # 5 song of the 1955-1959 rock era 

 -was # 1 for 9 weeks in 1959 

 -original Words by Berthold Brecht and Music by Kurt Weill. English words
added 

 --by Marc Blitzstein 

 -written in 1928 as "Moritat" or "Theme From the Threepenny Opera" a/k/a "The


 -Beggar's Opera" and introduced in that production by Weill's wife, Lotte
Lenya 

  

  

 Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear 

 And it shows them pearly white 

 Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe 

 And he keeps it, ah, out of sight 

 Ya know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe 

 Scarlet billows start to spread 

 Fancy gloves, oh, wears old MacHeath, babe 

 So there's never, never a trace of red 

  

 Now on the sidewalk, huh, huh, whoo sunny morning, un huh 

 Lies a body just oozin' life, eek 

 And someone's sneakin' 'round the corner 

 Could that someone be Mack the Knife? 

  

 There's a tugboat, huh, huh, down by the river dontcha know 

 Where a cement bag's just a'drooppin' on down 

 Oh, that cement is just, it's there for the weight, dear 

 Five'll get ya ten old Macky's back in town 

 Now d'ja hear 'bout Louie Miller? He disappeared, babe 

 After drawin' out all his hard-earned cash 

 And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor 

 Could it be our boy's done somethin' rash? 

  

 Now Jenny Diver, ho, ho, yeah, Sukey Tawdry 

 Ooh, Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown 

 Oh, the line forms on the right, babe 

 Now that Macky's back in town 

  

 I said Jenny Diver, whoa, Sukey Tawdry 

 Look out to Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown 

 Yes, that line forms on the right, babe 

 Now that Macky's back in town 

 Look out, old Macky's back!! 

  

  

 Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz 

 ronhontz@worldnet.att.net