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The song "Mack the Knife" (written in August, 1928) is from the German "Threepenny Opera" by Brecht & Weill about a violent, ruthless pimp, Macheath or Mackie Messer. This is the opening song to the opera. While Jenny Diver and Sukey Tawdrey are characters in the opera, Louie Miller, Lotte Lenya and Lucy Brown, while mentioned in the song, are not in the original opera (however, Lotte Lenya did appear in an off-Broadway production).

references:

http://german.about.com/library/blmus_hknef04mb.htm

http://www.events-in-music.com/number-one-songs-mack-the-knife.html

So, "Louie Miller" was apparently a John or simply a mark (victim) who was killed "after drawing out his cash" which Mac spent frivolously "like a sailor."

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