Sometimes a lollypop is just a lollypop...just not *this* time

[~Dan~]

A PV of France Gall singing the song "Les Sucettes" (The Lollipops) from around 1967.  Quite suggestive imagery.


Written by Serge Gainsbourg.  When France found out the suggestive meaning of the lyrics she never spoke to him again, but not before this live performance of the song.

Serge Gainsbourg & France Gall - Les Sucettes


As if the imagery of the PV wasn't bad enough I found the lyrics and translated them (babelfish + a tiny bit of French I remember from school).

Annie aime les sucettes,
Les sucettes à l'anis.
Les sucettes à l'anis
D'Annie
Donnent à ses baisers
Un goût ani-
Se lorsque le sucre d'orge
Parfumé à l'anis
Coule dans la gorge d'Annie,
Elle est au paradis.

Annie likes the lollipops,
The lollipops with aniseed.
Lollipops with the aniseed
Of Annie
Give to her kisses
A taste of ani-
When the barley sugar
Scented with aniseed
Runs down the throat of Annie,
She's in paradise.

---

Pour quelques pennies, Annie
A ses sucettes à l'anis.
Elles ont la couleur de ses grands yeux,
La couleur des jours heureux.

For some pennies, Annie
Has her lollipops with aniseed.
They have the color of her large eyes,
The color of the happy days.

---

Annie aime les sucettes,
Les sucettes à l'anis.
Les sucettes à l'anis
D'Annie
Donnent à ses baisers
Un goût ani-
Se lorsqu'elle n'a sur la langue
Que le petit bâton,
Elle prend ses jambes à son corps
Et retourne au drugstore.

Annie likes the lollipops,
The lollipops with aniseed.
Lollipops with the aniseed
Of Annie
Give to her kisses
A taste of ani-
When it's on her tongue
Only a little stick,
She runs quickly
And returns to the drugstore.

---

Pour quelques pennies, Annie
A ses sucettes à l'anis.
Elles ont la couleur de ses grands yeux,
La couleur des jours heureux.

For some pennies, Annie
Has her lollipops with aniseed.
They have the color of her large eyes,
The color of the happy days.

---

Lorsque le sucre d'orge
Parfumé à l'anis
Coule dans la gorge d'Annie,
Elle est au paradis.

When the barley sugar
Scented with aniseed
Runs down the throat of Annie,
She's in paradise.

---

There seem to be lots of puns.
Les sucettes à l'anis --- The lollipops with aniseed / Sucking with Annie
For some pennies, Annie / For some penis, Annie,  works well because of the French pronunciation.
Correct me if I'm wrong, any French readers, or add to it.

[ctz]

Those lollipop-outfits are great

[shadowstar]

but lollipops are good practice!!

.....erm, i meant good for a treat! yeah, that.