The Legionnaires Lament chords by The Decemberists

Chords with lyrics

DmDm
I'm a Legionnaire
     FF
Camel in disrepair
      G minorGm
Hoping for a Frigidaire
    DmDm   A augmentedA
To come passing by
   DmDm
I am on reprieve
     FF
Lacking my joie de vivre
      G minorGm
Missing my gay Paris
     DmDm  A augmentedA
In this desert dry
   FF
And I wrote my girl

Told her I would not return
       Bb majorBb
I've terribly taken a turn
    DmDm     A augmentedA
For the worst now I fear
      DmDm
It's been a year or more
               FF
Since they shipped me to this foreign shore
       G minorGm
Fighting in a foreign war
    DmDm     A augmentedA
So far away from my home
       FF
If only some rain would fall
   C majorC        Bb majorBb
On the houses and the boulevards
   G minorGm
And the sidewalk bagatelles
      Bb majorBb
It's like a dream
     FF
With the roar of cars
    C majorC       Bb majorBb
And the lolling of the cafe bars
  G minorGm                Bb majorBb
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine
    G minorGm         DmDm   A augmentedA   DmDm
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again
     FF
La la la la
     G minorGm   DmDm A augmentedA
La la la la
     DmDm
Medicating in the sun
       FF
Pinch doses of laudanum
        G minorGm
Longing for the old fecundity
DmDm  A augmentedA
Of my homeland
     DmDm
Curses to this mirage
      FF
A augmentedA bottle of ancient Shiraz
        G minorGm
A augmentedA smattering of distant applause
     DmDm   A augmentedA
Is ringing in my poor ears
    DmDm
On the old left bank
      FF
My baby in a charabanc
       G minorGm
Riding up the width and length
    DmDm   A augmentedA
Of the Champs-Elysee

      FF
If only some rain would fall
    C majorC       Bb majorBb
On the houses and the boulevards
    G minorGm
And the sidewalk bagatelles
      Bb majorBb
It's like a dream
     FF
With the roar of cars
    C majorC       Bb majorBb
And the lolling of the cafe bars
  G minorGm                Bb majorBb
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine
    G minorGm         DmDm   A augmentedA   DmDm
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again