Brittany Smith - soprano
Alex Gabriel - piano
A fun song about a crazy courtship party, composed by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), a French composer and pianist. The text is by Louis Aragon (1897 - 1982).
Gallant party
You see fops on cycles
You see pimps in kilts
You see whipper-snappers with veils
You see firemen burning their pompoms
You see words hurled on the garbage heap
You see words praised to the skies
You see the feet of orphan children
You see the backs of cabaret singers
You see cars run on gazogene
You see handcarts too
You see sly fellows hindered by long noses
You see unmitigated idiots
You see here what you see everywhere
You see girls who are led astray
You see guttersnipes you see Peeping Toms
You see drowned corpses float beneath bridges
You see out-of-work shoemakers
You see egg-candlers bored to death
You see securities tumble
And life rushing pell-mell by.
