(Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill)
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As performed by Lyle Lovett for the film Quiz Show:
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See the shark with teeth like razors
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You can read his open face
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And Macheath, he's got a knife, and
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In such an obvious place
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On a beautiful blue Sunday,
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See a corpse stretched in the Strand
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See a man dodge 'round the corner...
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Mackie's friends will understand.
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Mr. Meier reported missing
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Like so many wealthy men:
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Mack the knife acquired his cashbox
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God alone knows how or when
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Jenny Towler, she turned up lately
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With a knife stuck through her breast
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While Macheath, he walks the embankment,
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Nonchalantly unimpressed
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And the ghastly fire in Soho,
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Seven children at a go--
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In the crowd stands Mac the knife, but
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He isn't asked, he doesn't know
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And the child bride in her nightgown,
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Whose assailants still at large
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Violated in her slumbers
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Mackie how much did you charge?
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Yes, the child bride in her nightgown
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Whose assailants still at large
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Violated in her slumbers
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Mackie how much did you charge?
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Mackie how much did you charge?
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How much did you charge?
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How much did you charge?
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How much did you charge?
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How much did you charge?
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Moritat
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| Lyle Lovett |
