The other day I came across a great "bande dessinée" entitled "Opération Copperhead": it's a mix of fantasy and actual facts about David Niven and Peter Ustinov's activities during WW2. I highly recommend it!

Equally great was, at the end of the book, a poem by American novelist Peter Swanson about David Niven. I fell in love with it and immediately set out to turn it into a song.

If you enjoy it, you might be equally (or actually, even more) interested in the works of the people who drove me to post this so be sure to check out:

- Peter Swanson's website: http://www.peter-swanson.com/ (you'll also find some of his books in English or French on Amazon or other similar sites).

- and this link to Opération Copperhead: http://www.dargaud.com/bd/Auteurs/Harambat-Jean

David Niven: a Villanelle
Originally appeared in The Vocabula Review, December, 2007

There is a better world to live in:
Dressed for dinner in black tie,
Debonair like David Niven.

With shoulders wide and sun-browned skin,
The mustache trimmed, the bluest eye.
There is a better world to live in,

Where formality’s a given,
A place where you, in black, and I,
As neatly dressed as David Niven,

Drink silver cocktails shaken
Very cold and very dry.
There is a better world to live in,

Of string quartets, of My Blue Heaven,
Of clouds and girls that never cry,
Of men that look like David Niven,

Or close enough, something akin,
Beneath some starry, starry sky.
There is a better world to live in,
Dead and gone like David Niven.

David Niven - With lyrics by Peter Swanson

Bonjour,

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David Niven - With lyrics by Peter Swanson

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