Bowie performs The Alabama Song by Bertold Brecht live in Berlin 2002. Fans of The Doors will find this most interesting. The "Alabama Song" (also known as "Whiskey Bar") was originally published in Bertolt Brecht's Hauspostille (1927). It was set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 "Songspiel" Mahagonny and used again in Weill's and Brecht's 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. In the latter, it is performed by the character Jenny and her fellow prostitutes in the first act. Musically it contains elements of foxtrot, blues and advanced soprano coloraturas, sung by Jenny. The song style is typical of German schlager music, which was popular in Europe during the 1960s and 1970s. The lyrics for the "Alabama Song" are in English (albeit specifically idiosyncratic English) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original German. The song has often been covered, early on by Dave Van Ronk (of the Greenwich Village folk movement) in 1964, but perhaps most famously in 1967 by rock band The Doors (credited in their albums as "Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)"). The lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison, changed the second verse from: Show us the way to the next pretty boy to Show me the way to the next little girl.