Is that supposed to make some sort of difference?
He did not write the original, for it came from Threepenny Opera which was some German production in the late 1920's. Louis Armstrong did a cover of it before Darin.
Darin's version has differing wording than the original, taking it from what seems to me to have been some 'slasher' character to having mobster connotation, with the tugboat with "bags of concrete hanging down" sort of thing.
Yeah, real "Catholic" huh?
Not all mobsters of the 20th century were Eye-talian Catholics, though. Some were Irish. :')
And then there was the Jewish mobsters too, plus various freelancers and a wide variety of rum-running types -- though doubtful many Baptist or Methodist to speak of in that latter group either -- or if so, only the backslider types, or those "Christian" in name only.
I'm not a teetotaler myself, but I get the impression the majority of Prohibitionist types were the nominally Protestant evangelical types...though there may have been some RC females joining in with those early 20th century crusaders, for the "women's temperance movement" and the women's suffrage movement (both dating back to the 1870's or so) had far more overlap than not.
But that was not why I linked to that song.
Lots of sharks swimming 'round this RF forum, biting and devouring. I would prefer it that they bite each other and themselves rather than the ceaseless effort to snatch hopes of salvation away from whomever -- engaged in or else justified in the eyes of the sharks who do the biting, for simple reason the targets of this toothy thievery do not do islamic-like submission to their own notions of "Christian" caliphate.
chop-chop.
you might recheck the URL you linked to and see Bobby Darin's name; yes, it was a cover by him but you linked to him. I would prefer it that they bite each other and themselves rather than the ceaseless effort to snatch hopes of salvation away from whomever -
Now that you explain yourself, one can see why you linked that song; Do your well intentioned sentiments apply to those biting and devouring the hopes of salvation pertaining to those Mormons that still remain here, albeit few. Few are more zealous or conservative than them.