Mack The Knife Songtext / Lyric

Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear

And he shows them pearly whites/

Just a jack-knife, has MacHeath dear

And he keeps it out of sight

When the shark bites

With his teeth, dear

And scarlet billows start to spread

And fancy gloves though, wears MacHeath dear

So there's never, never a trace of red.

On a sidewalk, Sunday morning,

Lies a body, oozin' life

And someone's sneakin' around the corner

And is that someone be Mack the Knife?

From the tugboats, by the river

There's cement bags, droppin' down

That cement's just for the weight dear

Did your boy, did your boy do something rash

And Louie Miller just disappeared dear

After drawing, all his cash

Just MacHeath, he spends like a sailor

Did your boy do, do-do-do-do

Boy do something rash

And since more than just thirteen years

I have this great big band behind me

And we'll keep on swingin' 'til the day of dawn

Well a band like this

There's nothing that I can lose

And we keep on swingin'

Swingin' 'round the doodle-day of dawn yeah

And Sukey Tawdry and Jenny Diver

And Holly Peaches, Miss Lucy Brown

Oh the line forms, just to the right dear

I bet you Mack is, oh Mack is back in town

Sukey Tawdry, Holly Peaches, Lucy Brown and Louie Miller

Oh the line forms

There they're keepin' 'em down

oh the line forms, just on the right dear

And old Macky, I know that Mack is

Mack is back in town, yeah

Bet you Mack is in town