The Legionnaires Lament chords by The Decemberists

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

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

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