Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin
Album: Mack The Knife
Genre: Traditional Pop
Released: December, 1958
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This song is also known like The Ballad of Mack the Knife. Mack the Knife made part of The Threepenny Opera that it was premiered in Berlin in 1928. This single became so popular when it was recorded by Booby Darin in 1958. It reached the peak position number one at Billboard Hot 100 and number six into Black Singles Chart. This ballad won a Grammy Award as Best Record of the Year and appears as #251 into Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. Bobby Darin born in the Bronx, New York. His genres were the rock and roll, pop, folk and big band. He died when he was only thirty seven old after having developed a blood poisoning when he was taking a medication prescribed by a dentist. He was an actor too, his last film was Happy Mother’s Day, Love George in 1973.
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 mornin’, uh 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 don’tcha know
Where a cement bag just a’droopin’ 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…..
