All summer, we talk about a great love song every day. Thursday, July 20, the “good master” addresses the woman he loves in his “real” life.
Some will tell you that I have an appointment with you is the most beautiful love song by Georges Brassens. And it’s true that his melody is a splendor of swing and his text a sweet skill. Facing the powerful, facing the wicked, he says he only wants the woman he loves. Rather than sunlight, the splendor of the eyes of the woman he loves. And, rather than the table of his gargotière.
All Brassensists therefore know that having an appointment with her, he will rediscover her jealous eyes, her frilly dress, the flesh of her neck and her tinder heart – four verses. But in, I have an appointment with youGeorges Brassens talks about having a job – a real job like you and me, that’s the fifth verse.
In this episode of These songs that make the summeryou hear excerpts from:
Georges Brassens, I have an appointment with you, 1953
Patachou, I have an appointment with you, 1954
Georges Brassens, Saturn, 1964
Juliette Greco, Song for the Auvergnat, 1955
Georges Brassens, September 22, 1964
Georges Brassens, A pretty flower, 1954
Georges Brassens, The Princess and the Croque-Notes, 1972
Georges Brassens, The non-proposal of marriage, 1966
Georges Brassens, I have an appointment with you, 1953
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