"Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" (German: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer") is a song composed by #KurtWeill with lyrics by #BertoltBrecht for their 1928 music drama #TheThreepennyOpera (German: Die Dreigroschenoper). The song tells of a knife-wielding criminal of the London underworld from the musical named #Macheath, the "Mack the Knife" of the title.
https://youtu.be/4jcCwmtVAIM

@MikeDunnAuthor @bookstadon

Please do not airbrush #KurtWeill out of references to #TheThreepennyOpera (Die Dreigroschenoper) and those songs ( #MackTheKnife, a jazz standard, is from Threepenny Opera)

The popularity of those works largely rests on Weill's music rather than Brecht's politics, but it was a magical collaboration where the whole was more than the sum of the parts