Key: D
Introduction:
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 DmA
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