Mack the Knife

Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Marc Blitzstein

Oh, the shark has pearly teeth, dear
And he shows them, pearly white
Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear
And he keeps it out of sight

Oh, the shark bites with his teeth, dear
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves though wears Macheath, dear
So there's not, not a trace of red

On a Sunday, Sunday morning
Lies a body, oozin' life
Someone's sneaking 'round the corner
Tell me, could it be, could it be, could it be
Mack the Knife?

Oh, what's the next chorus
To this song, now?
This is the one, now
I don't know
But it was a swinging tune
And it's a hit tune
So we tried to do Mack The Knife

Ah, Louis Miller
Oh, something about cash
Yeah, Miller, he was spending that trash
And Macheath, dear, he spends like a sailor
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Could that boy do something rash

Oh, Bobby Darin and Louis Armstrong
They made a record, oh, but they did
And now Ella, Ella and her fellas
We're making a wreck, what a wreck
Of Mack The Knife

Oh, Snookie Taudry, bah bah bah nop do bo de do
Bah bah bah nop do bo de do
Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear
And do bo bo bah bah bah nop do bo de do

So, you've heard it
Yes, we've swung it
And we tried to
Yes, we sung it

You won't recognize it
It's a surprise hit
This tune called Mack The Knife

And so we leave you, in Berlin town
Yes, we've swung old Mack
We've swung old Mack in town
For the Darin fans
And for the Louis Armstrong fans too
We told you look out, look out, look out
Old Macheath's back in town

Wissenswertes über das Lied Mack the Knife von Ella Fitzgerald

Auf welchen Alben wurde das Lied “Mack the Knife” von Ella Fitzgerald veröffentlicht?
Ella Fitzgerald hat das Lied auf den Alben “Ella Sings Songs From The Soundtrack Of Let No Man Write My Epitaph” im Jahr 1960, “The Intimate Ella” im Jahr 1960, “Ella At Juan-les-Pins” im Jahr 1965, “Ella in Budapest” im Jahr 1970, “Lady Time” im Jahr 1978, “Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song” im Jahr 1993, “Essential Ella” im Jahr 1994, “Ella Fitzgerald : La diva du jazz vocal” im Jahr 1996, “Ultimate Ella Fitzgerald” im Jahr 1997, “Something To Live For” im Jahr 1999, “Ken Burns Jazz” im Jahr 2000, “Ella & Duke At The Côte D'Azur” im Jahr 2000, “Gold” im Jahr 2003, “Twelve Nights In Hollywood” im Jahr 2009, “The Best of the BBC Vaults” im Jahr 2010, “Queen of Gospel Music, Vol. 1” im Jahr 2018 und “Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes” im Jahr 2020 veröffentlicht.
Wer hat das Lied “Mack the Knife” von Ella Fitzgerald komponiert?
Das Lied “Mack the Knife” von Ella Fitzgerald wurde von Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Marc Blitzstein komponiert.

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