Serge GAINSBOURG – “Jazz in the Ravine” – Signed autograph notes.

Serge Gainsbourg (1928.1991)

Autographed notes signed.

One page in quarto

No place or date [Paris. 1986]

In preparation for his anthology published by Denoël, Mon propre rôle (My Own Role), Serge Gainsbourg corrected and approved with his initials the text of his song Du Jazz dans le ravin (Jazz in the Ravine) . Du chant à la une! (Singing in the Headlines!)

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Listen, you're driving or me?

It's me, so shut up

There's whisky in the glove compartment

And you just have to hit the American ones

Listen, listen to this, doll

Do you hear my favorite tune?

Turn the radio up a little louder

And don't worry, I'm not going into the scenery

Suddenly, just before Monte Carlo

That's it, that's what bad luck is all about

Look, the Jaguar is swerving!

And right in front of it, there it is, plunging into the ditch

And while they were both dying

The radio, the radio kept blaring

Tomorrow we'll be picking them up with a teaspoon