SERGE GAINSBOURG - Unpublished Autograph Song

SERGE GAINSBOURG Unpublished Autograph Song

Autograph manuscript. S.l.n.d. ; 1 page in-4th

Rare and interesting work manuscript, strongly scratched out, which manifests all the creative genius of Gainsbourg in the manipulation of words, here he practices playing with colours: "gold, yellow, red, blue, black, brown, azure , white, orange, purple, beige, turquoise, indigo ... ". Gainsbourg initiates song lyrics, one follows it in its construction. In the present case, the author mentions the Vietnam War with the introduction of a GI helicopter landing in a helicopter by soldiers of the Vietnamese People's Army, and then a return to childhood with an American soldier who remember the fights between kids when he lived in Alabama with his grandmother: "little yellow soldiers": "(...) I came out of a helicopter (words crossed out) poop of ore I came across some very yellow soldiers they attacked me with the knife (scratched out sentence) (translator note: in French a knife's blade is an "arme blanche" or "white weapon") now I have the blood that spurts all red in Alabama shouted a little boy all in pink, I came back to my Mammy bruised blue with sometimes a black eye, I was fighting (scratched out sentance) I distributed and I received punches (note: "marrons" in French meaning "brown" (...) »