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Sans Souci

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Sans souci, ah, sans souci
They got no room here for someone like me

Oh, the mountains start to giggle
When the springtime waters wiggle
Down the mountainside

I can hear the fishes swishing
Just as loud as I am wishing
When I hit the tide

Go, go, go, go
Go, go, go, go

Sans souci, ah, sans souci
They got no room here for someone like me

Go, go, go, go
Go, go, go, go

Try to tell me I was evil
Try to trample on my soul
Try to make me think that they were righteous
But the cloth of the lie was whole

Go, go, go, go
Go, go, go, go

Sans souci, ah, sans souci
They got no room here for someone like me

Ah, the earth, it starts a squawking
'Cause it knows that love is walking
And it ain't no dream
No, you ain't no dream
Sans souci, you ain't no dream

Go, go, go, go
Go, go, go, go

Fill your sails with all laughing and talking that used to be

Go, go, go, go
Go, go, go, go
Go, go, go, go
Sans souci

Go, go, go, go
Go, go, go, go

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mellow_harsher On Jun 05, 2015

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Cover art for Sans Souci lyrics by Peggy Lee

by WOL

8y ago

The verse that reads:

Try to tell me I was evil, try to trample on my soul Try to make me think that they were righteous But the plot of the lie was whole

The last line is incorrect. It should be: "But the cloth of the lie was whole"

It is a clever wordplay on the idiom "making something up out of whole cloth" for something that is completely made up, a complete fabrication.

See: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/make+up+out+of+whole+cloth

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