GAINSBOURG (Serge).
Autograph manuscript. Twenty verses with erasures, variants and corrections, on one folio page on the back of a printed score page (his song "La nuit d'octobre", set to music from the poem by Alfred de Musset, Paris, Éditions musicales Tutti, 1959).
Partial, highly-worked preparatory version, with passages not preserved, of her song Nanas au Paradis, which was premiered by Catherine Sauvage in 1960.
"On a saxophone or accordion
Les nanas au Paradis s'envolont
Fille sur le retour or jeune tendron
Into the arms of some pretty boy
Les nanas au Paradis s'envolont
All week long at work will gambergeront
On a date in Javel or Odéon
And on Saturday night just after coal
Les nanas au Paradis s'envolont... "
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