Mack the Knife
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title:
Mack the Knife
text:
"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their 1928 music drama The Threepenny Opera. The song tells of a knife-wielding criminal of the London underworld from the musical named Macheath, the "Mack the Knife" of the title. The song has become a popular standard recorded by many artists after it was recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1955 with translated lyrics by Marc Blitzstein. The most popular version of the song was by
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1928 song by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_the_Knife
date created:
2003-07-31T19:32:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T14:46:46Z
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