He spent a long part of his childhood in the café which his parents owned, where he learned work jargon and slang. At the age of 14 he signed up to the conservatoire de musique de Toulouse and to a dramatic arts institute. In the mean time, he set up his first band of 4 musicians in his own name, with whom he played at events throughout the region. In 1957, he was snapped up by Eddie Barclay who signed him on. It was in the studio of Barclay where he met his future wife, Simone Mazaltarim.
In 1958 Perret carried on touring round Parisian cabaret bars and crossed France and Africa as a part of the American group, The Platters. In Novemeber that year, a pleurisy forced him to take two years off in a sanatorium.
A master of the subtleties of the French language and French slang (he even rewrote some of Jean de La Fontaine's fables), his songs are often cheeky (for example Le zizi (The willy)) , asking questions in a seemingly naive child's tone, but has written more serious political songs, such as La bête est revenue, La petite kurde, Vert de Colère ou Lily.
le père dupanloup
Pierre Perret Lyrics
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Était déjà rempli d'astuces (bis)
Que dans le ventre de sa mère
Il taillait des flûtes à son père.
Ah! Ah! Ah! oui vraiment,
L'Père Dupanloup est dégoutant.
Bandait déjà comme un taureau (bis)
Pendant qu'elle pansait ses varices
Il enfilait déjà sa vieille nourrice
Ah! Ah! Ah! oui vraiment,
L'Père Dupanloup est dégoutant.
L'Père Dupanloup, à l'Opéra (bis)
Bandait tellement qu'on l'expulsa. (bis)
Avec la peau de ses roupettes,
Bouchait le tuyau des clarinettes.
Ah! Ah! Ah! oui vraiment,
L'Père Dupanloup est dégoutant.
L'Père Dupanloup monte en ballon, (bis)
Mais il avait l'système si long (bis)
Qu'à cinq cents mètres dans l'atmosphère
Ses couilles trainaient encore par terre.
Ah! Ah! Ah! oui vraiment,
L'Père Dupanloup est dégoutant.
Pour passer la Bérézina, (bis)
L'Père Dupanloup était là. (bis)
Lançant sa pine sur la rivière,
Il fit passer l'armée entière.
Ah! Ah! Ah! oui vraiment,
L'Père Dupanloup est dégoutant.
L'Père Dupanloup, à la cuisine, (bis)
Battait les oeufs avec sa pine. (bis)
Idiot, lui dit la cuisinière,
Fous-la-moi plutôt dans l'derrière.
Ah! Ah! Ah! oui vraiment,
L'Père Dupanloup est dégoutant.
A la prison de la smalah, (bis)
Le Père Dupanloup était là. (bis)
On le cherchait devant derrière,
Il enculait les dromadaires.
Ah! Ah! Ah! oui vraiment,
L'Père Dupanloup est dégoutant.
L'Père Dupanloup, dans son cercueil, (bis)
Bandait encore comme un chevreuil. (bis)
Avec sa queue en arc de cercle,
Il essayait d'soulever l'couvercle.
Ah! Ah! Ah! oui vraiment,
L'Père Dupanloup est dégoutant.
L'Père Dupanloup, au Paradis, (bis)
Voulut baiser la Vierge Marie (bis)
Il croit surement dit l'Eternel,
Que le paradis est un bordel !
Ah! Ah! Ah! oui vraiment,
L'Père Dupanloup est dégoutant.
The song "Le Père Dupanloup" is a humorous and provocative portrayal of a man named Dupanloup who is portrayed as a sexual deviant. The lyrics describe his sexual exploits from before birth to beyond the grave, using crude humor and puns to poke fun at his perversion. The song is sung in a humorous and irreverent tone, with the chorus repeating that "Père Dupanloup est dégoutant," or "Father Dupanloup is disgusting."
The first verse depicts Dupanloup as a fetus, already filled with tricks and playing flutes for his father in his mother's womb. The second verse describes him as a baby, already displaying a strong sexual nature, while his nurse attends to varicose veins. The third verse portrays him as a musician who gets expelled from the opera for his excessive erection, using the skin of his testicles to block the clarinet's tube. In the fourth verse, the lyrics describe Dupanloup's attempt at hot-air ballooning but his long sexual organ drags on the ground. The fifth verse depicts him as a hero who uses his penis to help Napoleon's army cross the Berezina, a river during the retreat from Moscow in 1812. The sixth verse has him in the kitchen, mixing eggs with his penis, and the cook demands him to insert it elsewhere. The seventh verse sees him in prison during the colonial era, engaging in sex with dromedaries. The eighth and final verse portrays him as a corpse, still aroused in his coffin, and trying to lift the cover with his arch-shaped genital.
Overall, the song is a satirical commentary on sexual perversion and the absurdity of sexual desire. The lyrics portray Dupanloup as an exaggerated caricature of the worst kind of sexual deviant, and the humorous tone of the song serves to ridicule such behavior. The song has been considered one of the most notorious songs of its time.
Line by Line Meaning
L'Père Dupanloup dans l'utérus, (bis)
The character named Père Dupanloup was already filled with tricks while still in his mother's womb
Était déjà rempli d'astuces (bis)
He was already full of cunning at this point
Que dans le ventre de sa mère
This trickery began before he was even born, while he was still in his mother's womb
Il taillait des flûtes à son père.
He even made flutes for his father while he was still in the womb
L'Père Dupanloup est dégoutant.
The character Père Dupanloup is disgusting
Bandait déjà comme un taureau
Père Dupanloup was already sexually aroused from a young age
Pendant qu'elle pansait ses varices
While his elderly nurse was taking care of her varicose veins
Il enfilait déjà sa vieille nourrice
Père Dupanloup was already engaging in sexual activity with his old nurse
Avec la peau de ses roupettes,
Using the skin of his testicles
Bouchait le tuyau des clarinettes.
He even used this skin to plug up the tubes of the clarinet in the opera
L'Père Dupanloup monte en ballon, (bis)
Père Dupanloup goes up in a hot air balloon
Qu'à cinq cents mètres dans l'atmosphère
However, his anatomy was so long that even at 500 meters in the air, his testicles still hung down
Pour passer la Bérézina, (bis)
To cross the Bérézina
L'Père Dupanloup était là. (bis)
Père Dupanloup was there to help with the crossing
Lançant sa pine sur la rivière,
By throwing his penis over the river
Il fit passer l'armée entière.
He managed to help the entire army cross the river with this act
Battait les oeufs avec sa pine. (bis)
Père Dupanloup was beating eggs with his penis
Idiot, lui dit la cuisinière,
The cook scolded him, calling him an idiot
Fous-la-moi plutôt dans l'derrière.
She suggested he use it for a different purpose
Il enculait les dromadaires.
He was even sexually active with camels while in prison with the smalah (an Arab tribal confederation)
L'Père Dupanloup, dans son cercueil, (bis)
Even in his coffin, Père Dupanloup remained sexually aroused
Bandait encore comme un chevreuil. (bis)
His penis was still erect, like that of a deer
Il essayait d'soulever l'couvercle.
He was trying to lift the lid of his coffin with his penis
Voulut baiser la Vierge Marie (bis)
In heaven, Père Dupanloup even attempted to have sex with the Virgin Mary
Il croit surement dit l'Eternel,
God says that Père Dupanloup definitely believed that heaven was like a brothel
Contributed by Mateo V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@yohannflavier248
je suis de l'époque Bali Balo mais ça fait du bien de retrouver les vrais version et encore plus par notre chère Pierre Perret
@josephsihali9545
Le Père Dupanloup a, à son corps défendant, acquis une sorte d'immortalité avec cette chanson.
@lanehassan6017
pro tip: watch movies on Flixzone. I've been using it for watching lots of of movies lately.
@harpergenesis5289
@Lane Hassan definitely, I have been watching on flixzone for years myself :)
@thierryrod1
Mon père chantait cette version au grand dam de la mère... 45 ans sont passées...
@filomenaseverino6874
Percutant. Grand chef-d’œuvre
@Meynze
Un chef d’œuvre
@lerayify
superbe paroles bravo.
@samuelcomte8554
il en manque , encore , Pére dUpanloup quand il fut vieux etc etc
@jeanlouisgarcia5619
les paroles citées par Boris sont exactes, bien connues des salles de garde d'hôpital!