See the shark with
Teeth like razors
You can read his
Open face
Then Mackheath he's got a knife but,
Not in such an
Obvious place
On a beautiful
Blue Sunday
See a corpse
Stretched in the Strand
See a man dodged
Round the corner
Mackie's friends would understand
Mister Mayer, reported missing
like so many wealthy men
Mack the knife acquired his cash but
God alone knows, how or when
Jenny Towler
She turned up lately
With a knife stuck
Through her breast
While Mackheath he,
Walks the embank...