Serge GAINSBOURG - Autograph manuscript of an unpublished song.

Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991)

Autograph manuscript – No Way.

Five pages in-4° on watermarked paper. Slnd [Paris. April 1990]

Unreleased song, in English.

Remarkable manuscript, first draft, of an unpublished song proposed to Vanessa Paradis in 1990, for her album Variations sur l'ame t'aime.

This unpublished title, No Way, was one of those rewritten by V. Paradis and Frank Langloff as were also Lolita blues and Zoulou.

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No way I don't know nothing about you / And that's the true / I swear I never fall in love / Before I saw you

No way / I don't know the way / To say I'm in love with you / If you want to stay / With me okay / It's up to you / If you don't care / I will stay / Just next to you / No way no no way

No way / If you go away

I will cry but it's up to you / Don't be sorry bout me / The night I will dream about you / No way no no way / To say how much I love you

I don't know the way / To play fair play / I don't know where are the night and the day / All I know today / It's at the finish / It's black jack or the OD

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The album Variations on the same t'aime recorded from February to April 1990 in the Guillaume Tell Studios is the last album on which Serge Gainsbourg worked. The album was released on May 28, 1990 and was a tremendous success. 400,000 copies were sold and the record was certified gold and platinum. The singles Tandem , Tell him you that I love you and L'Amour en soi also became huge successes.

Serge Gainsbourg dies 9 months after the release of the album, his last work which will mark the start of a great career for Vanessa Paradis. To pay tribute to Gainsbourg, on the 10th anniversary of his death, the album was reissued and again sold 400,000 copies.