SINGER: Ella Fitzgerald

SONG:Mack The Knife

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 lenyaoh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dearand it shows them pearly whitejust a jackknife has old macheath, babeand he keeps it, ah, out of sightya know when that shark bites with his teeth, babescarlet billows start to spreadfancy gloves, oh, wears old macheath, babeso there's never, never a trace of rednow on the sidewalk, huh, huh, whoo sunny morning, un huhlies a body just oozin' life, eekand someone's sneakin' ‘round the cornercould that someone be mack the knife?there's a tugboat, huh, huh, down by the river dontcha knowwhere a cement bag's just a'drooppin' on downoh, that cement is just, it's there for the weight, dearfive'll get ya ten old macky's back in townnow d'ja hear ‘bout louie miller? he disappeared, babeafter drawin' out all his hard-earned cashand now macheath spends just like a sailorcould it be our boy's done somethin' rash?now jenny diver, ho, ho, yeah, sukey tawdryooh, miss lotte lenya and old lucy brownoh, the line forms on the right, babenow that macky's back in towni said jenny diver, whoa, sukey tawdrylook out to miss lotte lenya and old lucy brownyes, that line forms on the right, babenow that macky's back in townlook out, old macky's back!!transcribed by ronald e. hontzronhontz@worldnet.att.net