爵士狗汪汪叫

說起爵士樂的唱歌，艾拉（Ella Fitzgerald）阿嬤可謂天后級人物，人稱爵士歌唱界的第一夫人。由於我個人聽器樂演奏的比較多，〔唱歌〕的聽得極少，艾拉阿嬤的作品我屈指可數，既然聽得不多，要明白說出這天后到底有多麼天后，擬聲唱有多麼高強，實在也說不出個具體的個人感想來。

但是，在她眾多錄音中，一九六零年於柏林的現場演唱，可真是讓人開心的一張錄音，猶其是其中最為人津津樂道的，便是Mack the Knife一曲。

這個版本之所以被傳頌多時，是由於艾拉忘詞，但她依然把這歌亂唱得很棒，唱到她自己一直笑，現場聽眾跟著也很樂，四十多年後每次再聽，我也都很樂，今日於網路巧遇音樂檔，貼給大家一起樂樂。

音樂檔在這裡：Mack the Knife by Ella in Berlin 1960

Google到的歌詞如下：

{Ella說話} Thank you. We'd like to do something for you now.
We haven't heard a girl sing it. And since it's so popular,
we'd like to try and do it for you.
We hope we remember all the words.

{開始唱}
Oh, the shark has pearly teeth, dear
And he shows them, pearly white
Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear
And he keeps it out of sight

Oh, the shark bites with his teeth, dear
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves though, wears Macheath dear
So there's not, not a trace of red

On a Sunday, Sunday morning
Lies a body, oooozin' life
Someone's sneaking 'round the corner
Tell me could it be, could it be, could it be
Mack the Knife?

Oh, what's the next chorus?
To this song, now
This is the one, now
I don't know
But it was a swinging tune
And its a hit tune
So we tried to do Mack The Knife

Ah, Louis Miller
Oh, something about cash
Yeah, Miller, he was spending that trash
And Macheath dear, he spends like a sailor
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Could that boy do, something rash

Oh Bobby Darin, and Louis Armstrong
They made a record, oh but they did
And now Ella, Ella, and her fellas
We're making a wreck, what a wreck
Of Mack The Knife

{學Louis Armstrong}
Oh Snookie Taudry, bah bah bah nop do bo de do
bah bah bah nop do bo de do
Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear
And do bo bo bah bah bah nop do bo de do

So, you've heard it
Yes, we've swung it
And we tried to
Yes, we sung it
You won't recognize it
It's a surprise hit
This tune, called Mack The Knife

And so we leave you, in Berlin town
Yes, we've swung old Mack
We've swung old Mack in town
For the Darin fans,
And for the Louis Armstrong fans, too
We told you look out, look out, look out
Old Macheath's back in town