Robert (Boby) Lapointe (April 16, 1922 - June 29, 1972) was a French singer… Read Full Bio ↴Robert (Boby) Lapointe (April 16, 1922 - June 29, 1972) was a French singer, noted for his humorous texts full of puns, alliterations, spoonerisms and paronyms. He was a friend of Georges Brassens who helped him along on the Parisian scene.

He was born in Pézenas, in the Hérault département of France. A brilliant scholar, he prepared for the entrance exam to the Centrale (engineering school) and Sup-Aero at Montpellier, but was conscripted into the Youth Building Projects in 1942 and sent to Germany in 1943 for compulsory work service. He escaped the same year, and found work as a diver in La Ciotat, a suburb of Marseilles, in 1944.

In 1946, he married Colette Maclaud. They had two children, Ticha (born 1948) and Jacky (1950).

His first published work, Les douze chants d'un imbecile, appeared in 1951. He moved to Paris and opened a fashion and baby clothes shop, still writing and producing plays. Later, he switched to being a fitter of TV aerials and began singing.

In the 1960s, Boby Lapointe started an actor’s career and acted in films by some of the greatest French directors, among which François Truffaut and Claude Sautet.

His fame grew when the actor Bourvil sang Lapointe's song Aragon et Castille in the 1954 film Poisson d'avril. In 1960, film director François Truffaut offered him a part in Tirez sur le Pianiste in which he played Framboise, accompanied by Charles Aznavour on piano. This marked the start of a career that saw Lapointe perform at major venues throughout France. His joyful character led him to build friendships with French stars Anne Sylvestre, Raymond Devos, Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens.

Lapointe was also a mathematician, and developed the bi-bi-binary system (also known as the bibi system) in 1971.

Saucisson De Cheval No.2
Boby Lapointe Lyrics

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Et c'est reparti
Encore du saucisson, de cheval
Que je vous dédie
Belle Dame aux yeux, de biche
Et à la bouche purpurine de cheval

Sur le coup d'cinq heures de cheval
J'vous invite ma chère de cheval

À Massy-Palaiseau de cheval
C'est là que j'habite en banlieue
Vous goûterez mon flan de cheval
E j'vous f'rai mon thé à cheval
Nous serons en groupe de cheval
Deux copains, copines très sympa

Si si venez, j'vous ferai des gâteries

J'ai acheté des œufs hier de cheval
Mais il faudra les trier de cheval
Parce que je pense de cheval
Qu'a n'a sont pas frias qu'a n'a sont pas frais
Je n'ai pas de sel de cheval
Et j'les fais pas cuire de cheval
J'les bats pour fair' ma neige de cheval
Mon petit entremets doigts de pied
Et pendant que je cuisinerai
Vous me ferez quelques bricoles de cheval
Faudra que vous m'colliez d'cheval
Du mastic aux angles d'cheval
Des angles des carreaux d'cheval
Pour être à l'abri d'la bise
La bis' moi j'la crains d'cheval
Quoi! Ça vous épate d'cheval
J'vous jure que je n'aime pas le froid

Que je sois damné
Si je mens

C'ette fille déjà làbas de cheval
Réclame du tord boyaux cle cheval
Et pour qu'on la serve-elle de cheval
Va nous faire un trip tease
Mets-toi donc toute nue de cheval
Mais sois pas ridicule, de cheval
Ote, ton slip
Oh! Tu m'bottes de cheval
On va faire la bombe
N'importe quoi! Hein!
Dans notre petite home de cheval
J'ai vu, c'est infâme de cheval
Ma bell' mère de Grasse. Près de Nice
Et vôt' père de Houilles en banlieue
Oh! La! La! C'est moche
Arrête, arrête de cheval

C'est trop moche arrête
Arrête d'hippocampe
Et c'est ainsi que le cheval
Devint le manager du champion de tennis
Car il poussait un grand "tennisman"

C'est drôle
Très amusant

Overall Meaning

Boby Lapointe's song "Saucisson De Cheval No.2" is a humorous play on words and absurdities. The French lyrics talk about eating horse sausage and dedicating it to a woman with deer eyes and purple lips. The singer invites her to his house in Massy-Palaiseau, where he'll serve her his horse-flavored custard, and they can hang out with their friends. He talks about buying horse eggs and separating the fresh ones, but he doesn't have horse salt or cook them on horseback. Instead, he whips them into horse snow for his dessert, while she helps him with household chores like sealing the horse corners and tiles against the cold wind. Eventually, the song takes a bizarre turn as the woman wants to do a striptease for them, and the singer sees his mother-in-law in Grasse and her father in Houilles. The song ends on a random note, mentioning a horse becoming a tennis champion's manager with a giant "tennisman" push.

This song is a tongue-in-cheek ode to French culinary traditions, regional humor, and surrealist imagery. It plays with the concept of what is gourmet food and what are taboo ingredients, such as horse meat (which is legal to consume in France, but not in other countries). The singer also inserts horse-related words into everyday phrases, transforming them into nonsense or puns. The song's refrain of "de cheval" emphasizes this wordplay and serves as a running joke throughout the song. The singer's persona is that of a quirky host who wants to impress his guests with his horsey charm and wit, and the woman he addresses is a mix of a fantasy figure and a real acquaintance he wants to seduce.

Saucisson De Cheval No.2Boby Lapointe Lyrics

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Saucisson De Cheval No.2
Boby Lapointe Lyrics