BRASSENS Georges Sète, 1921 - Saint-Gély-du-Fesc,... Lot 21
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BRASSENS Georges [Sète, 1921 - Saint-Gély-du-Fesc, 1981], French author, composer and
French singer-songwriter.
Autograph manuscript of "La fille du passeur". Probably written in 1970; 1 page on
squared paper (27 x 20.5 cm), archival perforations in margins.
This is a draft of the song with variations from the final version.
"Summer colds,
We've got to avoid them
If you want to help me
It'll go faster
It's the first time
That a boy takes off
My dress off and see me
In a Eve costume
If he passes a snake,
I ask how
How do you go about it
To offer the apple
She provoked me,
The fine matron.
I came straight from
Straight from Pontoise.
But I came from
A little from Pontoise.
I was fourteen years old
The respect of the girls
And the pockets in-
I've got a lot of balls in my pocket
And for the virtue
Of the lady,
I must have been
Showed too much zeal.
I must have been
Showed too much zeal"...
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