The Ballad of Mack the Knife
Dee Snider

See the shark with teeth like razors.

All can read his open face.

And Macheath has got a knife, but

Not in such an obvious place.

See the shark, how red his fins are

As he slashes at his prey.

Mac the Knife wears white kid gloves which

Give the minimum away.

By the Thames's turbid waters

Men abruptly tumble down.

Is it plague or is it cholera?

Or a sign Macheath's in town?

On a beautiful blue Sunday

See a corpse stretched in the Strand.

See a man dodge round the corner...

Mackie's friends will understand.

And Schmul Meier, reported missing

Like so many wealthy men:

Mac the Knife acquired his cash box.

God alone knows how or when.

Jenny Towler turned up lately

With a knife stuck through her breast

While Macheath walks the Embankment

Nonchalantly unimpressed.

Where is Alfred Gleet the cabman?

Who can get that story clear?

All the world may know the answer

Just Macheath has no idea.

And the ghastly fire in Soho -

Seven children at a go -

In the crowd stands Mac the Knife, but he

isn't asked and doesn't know.

And the child-bride in her nightie

Whose assailant's still at large

Violated in her slumbers -

Mackie, how much did you charge?

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