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In a shabby side of Paris behind a boulevard
There’s an old Bistro tended by a horrIble slob

If you taste in wine’s only for the fine fancy glass
Drink some other place, the nectar you’ll taste here’s too crass

But if your gullet can take a bullet in the night
Have a chug of this little jug of bliss full of spite

At this whistle stop, the cream of the crop overflows
Every old juicehead and better-off-dead comes and goes

They spawn like salmon just to examine on the job
The belle of the bar, the wife of this horrible slob

May I drink every last drop of the sea’s salty juice
If after you see her you’re not completely seduced

By this fairy who turned a dive into a chateau
With her sexy bait, all her tempting traits in a row

These exquisite gems, who embraces them In this mob
Really it’s too much, all this for the clutch of this slob

It’s unjust and crazed, but what can be said or be done
They say love is blind and it just might find anyone

If you feel the need to flirt best be brief and polite
Make no sudden, moves, mind your p’s and q’s or she’ll strike

Her quick-smacking hand will punish any man who’d trespass
Not yet born are those who will put their nose in her glass

Not yet born is he who will thaw a piece of her ice
He has not been born who will fondle this fat slob’s wife

In the shabbiest square of poor Paris, so it goes
There’s a fairy who turned a dive into a chateau

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from BAD REPUTATION SECRET 5 SONG EP, released November 15, 2013
Recorded and mixed by Daniel Weintraub and Quentin Jennings at Hell's Kitchen Recording and Sous-Sol Re Sol, Brooklyn, New York.

Pierre de Gaillande – translations, vocals, guitar
Christian Bongers – bass
Quentin Jennings - bells
Tony Jarvis – bass clarinet
David Spinley – clarinet, tenor saxophone

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Pierre de Gaillande was born in Paris, France, raised in California, and lives in New York.

Currently, Pierre writes songs for and plays guitar in New York bands Open Kimono and Bad Reputation and composes music for film and television. ... more

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