The Legionnaires Lament

Gm  - 355333
A   - x02220

Chorus shapes -
F   - 133211
C/G - 332010
Gm  - 355333
Bb  - x13331
Bbm - x13321


[Verse 1]
      Dm                   F
I'm a legionnaire camel in disrepair
          F# G                   Gm      A
Hoping for a frigid heir to come passing by
     Dm                    F
I am on reprieve lacking my joie de vivre
        F# G                  Gm     A
Missing my gay Paris in this desert dry
      Dm                       F
And I wrote my girl told her I would not return
         F# 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
           F# G                      Gm       A
Fighting in a foreign war so far away from my home

[Chorus]
             F                       C/G
If only some rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards
        Gm                                     Bb
And the side walk bagatelles it's like a dream
         F                    C/G
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

        Dm             F
be back again  La la da dum
    F# G                Gm  A
La la la low

[Verse 2]
           Dm                           F
Medicating in the sun  pinched doses of laudanum
              F# G              Gm      A
Longing for the old fecundity of my homeland
       Dm                          F
Curses to this mirage, a bottle of ancient Shiraz
           F# G                             Gm         A
A smattering of distant applause is ringing in my poor ears
       Dm                        F
On the old left bank my baby in a charabanc
           F# G                       Gm           A
Riding up the width and length of the Champs Elysees

[Chorus]
             F                       C/G
If only some rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards
        Gm                                     Bb
And the side walk bagatelles it's like a dream
         F                    C/G
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

        Dm             F
be back again  La la da dum
    F# G                Gm  A
La la la low

[Interlude]
Dm F
F# G Gm A

[Chorus]
             F                       C/G
If only some rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards
        Gm                                     Bb
And the side walk bagatelles it's like a dream
         F                    C/G
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

[Ending]
            F              C/G
be back again, be back again,
            Gm                  Bb
Be back again,  I'll be back again
          F                C/G
Ah ah ahh ohh    ah ah ahh ohhh
         Gm               Bb  Bbm
La la la lo    oh ohh oh ohh

[Outro accordion light guitar]
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Gm Bb Bbm Dm