Moritat Lyrics - Lovett Lyle

(Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill) 

As performed by Lyle Lovett for the film Quiz Show: 

See the shark with teeth like razors 

You can read his open face 

And Macheath, he's got a knife, and 

In such an obvious place 

On a beautiful blue Sunday, 

See a corpse stretched in the Strand 

See a man dodge 'round the corner... 

Mackie's friends will understand. 

Mr. Meier reported missing 

Like so many wealthy men: 

Mack the knife acquired his cashbox 

God alone knows how or when 

Jenny Towler, she turned up lately 

With a knife stuck through her breast 

While Macheath, he walks the embankment, 

Nonchalantly unimpressed 

And the ghastly fire in Soho, 

Seven children at a go-- 

In the crowd stands Mac the knife, but 

He isn't asked, he doesn't know 

And the child bride in her nightgown, 

Whose assailants still at large 

Violated in her slumbers 

Mackie how much did you charge? 

Yes, the child bride in her nightgown 

Whose assailants still at large 

Violated in her slumbers 

Mackie how much did you charge? 

Mackie how much did you charge? 

How much did you charge? 

How much did you charge? 

How much did you charge? 

How much did you charge?