"When you've got twelve beauties under your skin – Two duchesses and ten typists – What more will you have but – But a little lead – A little lead in the wing – No more in the brain"
2.500€
Serge Gainsbourg (1928.1991)
Autographed notes signed – Twelve beauties in the skin.
Two quarto pages on paper from the Floch printing house.
Without place or date [Paris. 1986]
Serge Gainsbourg, in preparation for his anthology, Mon propre rôle , extensively corrects and validates, in black felt-tip pen, the proofs of his song Douze belles dans la peau, one of the flagship tracks, along with Le Poinçonneur des Lilas, of his first album (25 cm ) Du chant à la une !…, released in 1958. Said 25 cm, praised by Boris Vian, will receive the Grand Prix of the Académie Charles Cros in 1959.
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When you have twelve beauties under your skin
Two duchesses and ten typists
What more will you get otherwise?
Except for a little bit of lead
A bit of a setback
Not in the brain either
When you've blown your money
In all the boxes, shotgun blasts
You'll never be anything but a pigeon
With a little lead
A bit of a setback
Not in the brain either
When in the heat of passion
At the scales of nylon stockings
You will climb, you will climb
After that, what will you have?
You'll be in trouble
Not in the brain either
When you have loved with all your hearts
And that your hens will no longer have teeth
To eat your heart out of your hand
Well, you clever clogs!
You'll be in trouble
Not in the brain either
And when you've spent your life
Behind the bars of your bed
You'll say you paid for it
Yes, and then what?
You'll be in trouble
Not in the brain either
But maybe you won't live to a ripe old age
With your twelve beauties under your skin
You'll meet a guy one day
A guy who will send you
Lead in the brain
And he will grow wings for you
OK
SG
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Bibliography:
My own role . Denoël. 1987