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The Decemberists do it capo 5 (Dm), Nate does it capo 2 (Bm). Its played quick, strummed on beat, "I'm a" starts on [C]
Legionnaire's Lament, The
by The Decemberists
I'm a [Am] legionnaire, camel in [C] disrepair
Hoping for a [D] frigid air to come [F] passing [E] by
I am [Am] on reprieve, lacking my [C] joie de vivre
Missing my [D] gay Paris in this [F] desert [E] dry
And I wrote my girl, told her I would not return
I've terribly taken a turn for the worse now, I fear
It's been a year or more since they shipped me to this foreign shore
fighting in a foreign war, so far away from my home
Chorus I
If only some [C] rain would fall on the [G] houses and the boulevards
And the [Dm] sidewalk bagatelles (it's like a [F] dream)
With the [C] roar of cars and the [G] lulling of the cafe bars
The [Dm] sweetly sleeping sweeping of the [F] Seine
Lord, I [Fm] don't know if I'll ever be back [Am] again
La Da Dum [C] Dum La Da Da [D] Dum [F] [E]
Medicating [Am] in the sun with pinch doses of [C] laudanum
Longing for the [D] old fecun- dity [F] of my home- [E] land
Curses [Am] to this mirage! A bottle of [C] ancient Shiraz
The smattering of [D] distant applause is ringing [F] in my poor [E] ears
On the [Am] old left bank, my baby in a [C] charabanc
Riding up the [D] width and length of the [F] Champs Elys -[E] ees
Chorus I followed by Interlude [Am] [C] [D] [F] [E]
Chorus II and End
If only some [C] rain would fall on the [G] houses and the boulevards
And the [Dm] sidewalk bagatelles (it's like a [F] dream)
With the [C] roar of cars and the [G] lulling of the cafe bars
The [Dm] sweetly sleeping sweeping of the [F] Seine
Lord, I [Fm] don't know if I'll ever be back [C] again,
be back [G] again, be back [Dm] again, O be back [F] again
Oh oh oh [C] oh oh [G], la la la [Dm] la, la la la [F] la, oh oh oh [Fm] oh
[C] [G] [Dm] [F] [Fm] [Am]
Hoping for a [D] frigid air to come [F] passing [E] by
I am [Am] on reprieve, lacking my [C] joie de vivre
Missing my [D] gay Paris in this [F] desert [E] dry
And I wrote my girl, told her I would not return
I've terribly taken a turn for the worse now, I fear
It's been a year or more since they shipped me to this foreign shore
fighting in a foreign war, so far away from my home
Chorus I
If only some [C] rain would fall on the [G] houses and the boulevards
And the [Dm] sidewalk bagatelles (it's like a [F] dream)
With the [C] roar of cars and the [G] lulling of the cafe bars
The [Dm] sweetly sleeping sweeping of the [F] Seine
Lord, I [Fm] don't know if I'll ever be back [Am] again
La Da Dum [C] Dum La Da Da [D] Dum [F] [E]
Medicating [Am] in the sun with pinch doses of [C] laudanum
Longing for the [D] old fecun- dity [F] of my home- [E] land
Curses [Am] to this mirage! A bottle of [C] ancient Shiraz
The smattering of [D] distant applause is ringing [F] in my poor [E] ears
On the [Am] old left bank, my baby in a [C] charabanc
Riding up the [D] width and length of the [F] Champs Elys -[E] ees
Chorus I followed by Interlude [Am] [C] [D] [F] [E]
Chorus II and End
If only some [C] rain would fall on the [G] houses and the boulevards
And the [Dm] sidewalk bagatelles (it's like a [F] dream)
With the [C] roar of cars and the [G] lulling of the cafe bars
The [Dm] sweetly sleeping sweeping of the [F] Seine
Lord, I [Fm] don't know if I'll ever be back [C] again,
be back [G] again, be back [Dm] again, O be back [F] again
Oh oh oh [C] oh oh [G], la la la [Dm] la, la la la [F] la, oh oh oh [Fm] oh
[C] [G] [Dm] [F] [Fm] [Am]