Boris VIAN - Songbook

Boris VIAN (1920 - 1959)
Book of autograph songs. (The 50's) ; 22 pages in-8 °.

Beige spiral notebook entirely composed of about twenty songs written in pencil on the front of each leaf, all in very good condition. For the most part, these are more or less completed sketches, sometimes a few annotated sentences between two songs. Throughout the words, we find the spirit, the banter, the provocation that the writer and singer knew how to use, an emblematic figure of the post-war Latin Quarter.

Here are some non-exhaustive extracts: "It's over, it's cooked, it's roasted, it lasted too long, I'm sick of your scams, so take your clicks and your slaps, and fuck me the camp "," I'm not ashamed "," When we have made feather dusters with the tails of all the roosters when we have made brushes with the bristles of all the pigs, when we have made shoes with the leather of all the calves we will piss each other off on earth we will piss each other off "," I don't know what I have tonight I don't know what I have that makes me sick I'm not in the blues I have yet a lover who has kilos of money I have a large hut and a few Cadillacs etc… but I'm sick I don't have the cockroach… We can't have everything. The cockroach does not pay. You quibble "," We have just started a souvenir merchant with the sign of the Pig Pique, there are some who are looking for it and who have not stolen it "," Ingenuous everyone calls you ingenuous except I, who saw you naked in my arms. Innocent. The old ladies find you charming if they knew how moving you are in my arms "," All alone in winter by the sea "," (...) But you should know that for a hundred years, long, wide and Whether it was midnight, whether it was noon, it was important that this fact be said. You piss me off, Doctor Schweitzer "