Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Castaways and Cutouts
Song: The Legionnaire's Lament
Dm F
I'm a legionnaire, camel in disrepair
G Gm A
Hoping for a frigidaire to come passing by
Dm F
I am on reprieve, lacking my joie de vive
G Gm A
Missing my gay Paris, in this desert dry
Dm F
And I wrote my girl, told her I would not return
G Gm A
Terribly taken a turn, for the worse now I fear
Dm F
It’s been a year or more since they shipped me to this foreign shore
G Gm A
Fighting in a foreign war so far away from my home
[verse]
F C
If only summer rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards
Gm Bb
And the sidewalk bagatelles it's like a dream
F C
With the roar of cars and the lulling of the cafe bars,
Gm Bb
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine
Bbm
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again
Dm - F - G - Bm - A
La la la la dum La la la la
Medicating in the sun, pinched doses of laudanum
Longing for the old fecundity of my homeland
Curses to this mirage, a bottle of ancient Shiraz
A smattering of distant applause is ringing in my poor ears
On the old left bank, my baby in a charabanc
Riding up the width and length of the Champs Elysees
If only summer rain would fall on the houses and the boulevard
And the sidewalk bagatelles it's like a dream
With the roar of cars and the lulling of the cafe bars
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again
If only summer rain would fall on the houses and the boulevard
And the sidewalk bagatelles it’s like a dream
With the roar of cars and the lulling of the cafe bars
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again...
F C Gm Bb
Be back again, be back again, I'll be back again
F C Gm Bb
La la la la...
F C Gm Bb Bbm F
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