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The Decemberists - The Legionnaire's Lament

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I'm a legionnaire, camel in disrepair,
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hoping for a Frigidaire to come passing by.
Dm F
I am on reprieve, lacking my joise de vivre,
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missing my gay Paree in this desert dry.
Dm F
And I wrote my girl, told her I would not
G
return, I've terribly taken a turn for the
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worse now, I fear. It's been a year or more
F
since they shipped me to this foreign
G Bb
shore, fighting in a foreign, so far away
A
from my home.

CHORUS
F C
If only some rain would fall on the house and
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the boulevards and the sidewalks bagatelles (it's
Bb F
like a dream). With a roar of cars and the
C Gm
lolling of the cafe bars and the sweetly sleeping
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sweeping of the Seine. Lord, I don't know if I'll
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ever be back again. La Da Dum Dum La Da Da Dum

Medicating in the sun with pinch doses of
laudanum, longing for the old fecundity of
my homeland. Curses to this mirage! A
bottle of ancient shiraz! The 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 Elysee.

REPEAT CHORUS

INTERLUDE
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REPEAT CHORUS

OUTRO
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... Lord, I don't know if I'll ever be back again,
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be back again, be back again, O be back again.
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Oh oh oh oh oh, la la la la, la la la la, oh oh oh oh

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