Serge Gainsbourg – “Ecce homo” – “And yeah, it’s me, Gainsbarre.”

Serge Gainsbourg (1928.1991)

Autographed notes signed.

One page in quarto

No place or date [Paris. 1986]

"And yeah, it's me, Gainsbarre."

In preparation for his anthology published by Denoël, Mon propre rôle , Serge Gainsbourg corrected and validated with his initials the text of his reggae song Ecce homo published in 1981 on the album Mauvaises nouvelles des étoiles.

This song marks the birth of the Gainsbarre character, the poet's scandalous alter ego.

___________________________________________________

And yeah, that's me, Gainsbarre

I am found by chance

Nightclubs and bars

Americans are great

Gainsbarre is recognizable

From her jeans to her bar-

Be, after three nights, his cigars

And his bouts of depression

Gainsbarre is strange

He's cool, I guess

He stops everything

I don't care, well, we'll see

And yeah, Gainsbarre was nailed

At Mount Golgotha

He's hilarious at reggae

The heart pierced through and through