Gabby from Holy Drinker by Robert Sunday

6.The age of miracles has not passed. After a vision of Thérese during the night, exhorting him to come pay his debt on Sunday, Andreas finds a thousand franc note in the secondhand wallet he had bought just a week before, and which he had forgotten about and never used. He goes to a café where he sees a portrait of Kanjak, a childhood friend turned famous boxer, on the wall. (In the book Kanjak is a footballer. In the film a boxer). Discovering that Kanjak is residing in Paris he goes to meet him. After spending a day of drinking and catching up together, Kanjak rents a hotel room for his dissolute friend.
Whilst in the hotel Andreas starts a brief liaison with a dancer called Gabby.They spend Friday night through to Sunday morning together.That Sunday Andreas has to return to Batignolles to try and repay his debt to St Thérese. Gabby misunderstands and believes Thérese to be a rival and so attacks Andreas before storming out of the room. Later in the bistro Andreas discovers Gabby has taken most of his money, and he has just 250 francs left. He is philosophical about it, reasoning that he had enjoyed himself and that enjoyment must be paid for.

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6.	Gabby	3:05

Lyrics

On the wall behind the bar there is a portrait displayed
In the darkness of the cinema a newsreel plays
And in both there is a pugilist of high renown
A boyhood friend of mine, and he is still in town
In a Champs-Elysee hotel we will rendezvous
Talk about the past and share a drink
And he rents for me a hotel room
Now I'm in thrall to pale golden parrots on a red silk wall

In the corridor I saw a young girl entering her room
I spoke highly of her beauty and she said I like you too
And perhaps we'll meet tomorrow night she murmured in the dark
Her room was 87, it was carved upon my heart
That night I went to see her, she was not surprised
Lying there half naked with a book
She said i am a dancer and my name's Gabby
We danced right into bed and set our inhibitions free

Saturday we took a trip to Fontainebleau
But now the spark we'd had was just a hollow glow
Still we drank our fill and hit the sack and I will recount
How her warm naked body was a sea in which to drown
Sunday morning I had to go see Therese
Gabby took offense and went berserk
She stormed out of the room, and shouted nothing's free
I didn't know right then she'd stolen half my cash from me

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from Holy Drinker, released September 4, 2020

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