L'homme fossile [English translation]

Since 3 millions years, I've slept in the peat

When a naughy pickaxe slice my collar clean

And made me performing a gracious curve

In the end of whom I'd diving in formalin

At first they'd wanted consolidate my face

They'd begin brushing jaw and temporal bone

followed by a shampoo with potassium bicarbonate

Then they tie a favour around my parietal

Overnight I became a star

Newspapers, TV, it was only for me

So much so in rest, all the other skeletons

Feeling themselves neglected gave me the cold shoulder

Finally the scientists following habits and customs

Wanting baptize me with a latin name

Call me Pithecanthrpous Erectus

Erectus, sounds good to me cause I were horny !

And this learned people, with boots and nose pliers

On the seen of a little bone or a premolar

Understood that I owned a lot of powers

which differentiated me of other mamals

They said that I were a ace of club

Who knocked out buffalos, aurochs and chicks

That I were really good for cartoons

of Callipygian Venus with tits like a moon

They said that I lived formerly in a cave

They said so many things, so many curious stuff

That I were covered with hairs and that I didn't have trousers

While I were living in a sururbs flag

I were like everyone steeped in good manners

All sunday morning I bet on trifecta

I were wearing stiff collars and truss

It was before the war, before all things blow up

It was now 3 millions years ago

But don't worry, no more nuclear fallout

• Artist:Serge Reggiani