Legionnaires Lament

      Dm                    F
I'm a legionnaire, camel in disrepair
             G                  Bb      A
Hoping for a frigid air to come passing by
     Dm                      F
I am on reprieve, lacking my joie de vivre
           G                 Bb     A
Missing my gay Paris in this desert dry
      Dm                        F
And I wrote my girl, told her I would not return
              G                    Bb           A
I've 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                    Bb       A
fighting in a foreign war, so far away from my home

[Chorus]
             F                      C
If only some 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                              Dm
Lord, I don't know if I'll ever be back again
           F          G        Bb    A
La Da Dum Dum La Da Da Dum

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

[Chorus]
             F                      C
If only some 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                              Dm
Lord, I don't know if I'll ever be back again
           F          G        Bb    A
La Da Dum Dum La Da Da Dum

[Interlude]
Dm    F    G    Bb  A

[Chorus]
             F                      C
If only some 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                              F
Lord, I don't know if I'll ever be back again,
         C              Gm              Bb
be back again, be back again, O be back again
            F            C            Gm           Bb  Bbm
Oh oh oh oh oh, la la la la, la la la la, oh oh oh oh