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?
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