The Legionnaire's Lament chords by The Decemberists
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Verse 1
(A minor) I'm a legionnaire
Camel in (C major) disrepair
Hoping for (D major) a frigid heir to come (D minor) passing by (E major)
I am on (A minor) reprieve
Lacking my (C major) joie de vive
Missing (A minor) my (D major) gay Paris
(D minor) In this desert dry (E major)
Verse 2
And I wro (A minor) te my girl
Told her I (C major) would not return
Terribly (A minor) taken (D major) a turn
For the worse (D minor) now I fear (E major)
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Verse 3
It's been a year (A minor) or more
Since they shipped me to
this (C major) foreign shore
Fight (A minor) ing in (D major) a foreign war
So far away (D minor) from my (E major) home
Verse 4
If only summer (C major) rain would fall
On the houses (G major) and the boulevards
And the side (D minor) walk bagatelles
it's like a dream (F major)
With the (C major) roar of cars
And the lulling (G major) of the cafe bars,
The sweetly (D minor) sleeping sweeping
of the Seine (F major)
Lord I don't (F minor) know if I'll
ever be (F major) back again
(A minor)
Verse 5
La la la la (C major) dam
La la la (D major) low (A major)
(D minor) (D major) (D minor)
Verse 6
(E major)
Medic (A minor) ating in the sun
Pinched doses of laudanum (C major)
Longing for the (D major) old fecundity
(D minor) of my homeland (E major)
Curses (A minor) to this mirage
A bottle of (C major) ancient Shiraz
A smattering of (D major) distant applause
Is (D minor) ringing in my poor ears (E major)
Verse 7
On the (A minor) old left bank
My baby in a (C major) charabanc
Riding up the (D major) width and length
Of the (D minor) Champs Elysees (E major)
Verse 8
If only summer (C major) rain would fall
On the houses (G major) and the boulevard
(D minor) And the side walk bagatelles
it's like a dream (F major)
With the (C major) roar of cars
And the lulling (G major) of the cafe bars
The sweetly (D minor) sleeping
sweeping of the Seine (F major)
Lord I don't (F minor) know if I'll ever be (F major) back again (A minor)
Interlude 1
(C major) (D major) (D minor) (D major) (D minor) (E major)
(A minor) (C major) (D major) (D minor) (D major) (D minor) (E major)
Verse 9
If only summer (C major) rain would fall
On (G major) the houses and the boulevard (D minor)
And the side walk bagatelles
it's like a dream (F major)
With the roar (C major) of cars
And the lulling (G major) of the cafe bars
The sweetly (D minor) sleeping
sweeping of the Seine (F major)
Lord I don't (F minor) know if I'll
ever be back again
(C major)
Verse 10
Be back again (G major)
Be back again (D minor)
I'll be back (F major) again
Outro 1
(C major) (G major) (D minor)
(F major) (F minor) (C major) (G major)
(D minor) (F major) (F minor)
The Legionnaire's Lament
The Decemberists
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