Serge Gainsbourg corrects and signs the text of his song “Joanna”. 1986.

“Joanna is as big as an elephant / It is the biggest in all of New Orleans”

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Serge Gainsbourg (1928.1991)

Signed autograph notes.

An in-4 ° page

Without place or date [Paris. 1986]

 

"Joanna Joanna you know how to dance light light. »»

In preparation for his anthology published by Denoël, my own role , Serge Gainsbourg corrects, validates and signs of his initials the text of his song Joanna published in 1964.

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Joanna is as big as an elephant

It is the biggest in all of New Orleans

And yet

Joanna Joanna you know how to dance light light

 

Joanna is good from Louisiana

When it follows a diet it is a banana diet

And yet

Joanna Joanna you know how to dance light light

 

She dances light light

She jumps light light

It turns light

It is sent light light

 

Joanna has a weakness for stools

She consumes two or three in the evening

 

And yet

Joanna Joanna you know how to dance

Light

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French adaptation of "Kiyakiya (Why do You Run Away?)" From Babatunde Olatunji, La Chanson Joanna is on the album 33 Tours Gainsbourg Percussions published in 1964.

Bibliography: My own role (volume I. 1987. Page 129)

 

 

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