The Decemberists – The Legionnaires Lament (Ukulele)

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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