Decemberists - Legionnaires Lament (2) guitar tab

*The Decemberists*

Album: Castaways and Cutouts

Song: The Legionnaire's Lament

VERSE I

Dm F

I'm a legionnaire, camel in disrepair,

G Bb A

hoping for a Frigidaire to come passing by.

Dm F

I am on reprieve, lacking my joise de vivre,

G Bb A

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

Bb A Dm

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

Gm

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

Bb Bbm

sweeping of the Seine. Lord, I don't know if I'll

Dm F G Bb A

ever be back again. La Da Dum Dum La Da Da Dum

VERSE II

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

Dm F G Bb A

REPEAT CHORUS

OUTRO

Bbm F

... Lord, I don't know if I'll ever be back again,

C Gm Bb

be back again, be back again, O be back again.

F C Gm Bb Bbm

Oh oh oh oh oh, la la la la, la la la la, oh oh oh oh

F C Gm Bb Bbm Dm