Le Gorille

A-side B-side "Le Gorille" is a 1952 song by Georges Brassens, found on his album La Mauvaise Réputation.

[1] It was also released as a single, with La Chasse Aux Papillons as B-side.

[2][3] The song describes how a group of women in a zoo observe the genitalia of a male gorilla.

The gorilla, who is in heat, mistakes a judge in a black robe for a woman and rapes him.

Brassens later reveals that this very same judge had sentenced a man to the guillotine earlier that day and now, just like the convicted criminal, screams in vain for mercy.