The Legionnaire's Lament letra

I'm a legionnaire
Camel in disrepair
hoping for a frigid air to come passing by
I am on reprieve
lacking my joie de vivre
missing my gay paris
in this desert dry

And I wrote my girl
told her I would not return
terribly taken a turn
for the worst now I fear

Its been a year or more
since they shipped me to this foreign shore
fighting in a foreign war
so far away from my home

If only summer rain would fall
on the houses and the boulevards
and the side walk bagatelles it's like a dream
with the roar of cars
and the lulling of the cafe bars,
the sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine.
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again.

la la la la dam
la la la low

Medicating in the sun
pinched doses of laudanum
longing for the old fecundity of my homeland
Curses to this mirage!
A bottle of ancient Chiraz
a 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 Elysees

If only summer rain would fall
on the houses and the boulevard
and the side walk bagatelles it's like a dream
with the roar of cars
and the lulling of the cafe bars
the sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again

If only summer rain would fall
on the houses and the boulevard
and the side walk bagatelles its like a dream
with the roar of cars
and the lulling of the cafe bars
the sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again...

be back again,
be back again,
I'll be back again

The Decemberists - Letras

• 12/17/12
• 16 By 32
• A Beginning Song
• A Bower Scene
• A Cautionary Song
• All Arise!
• Angel, Won't You Call Me?
• Annan Water
• Anti-Summersong
• Apology Song
• As I Rise
• Ben Franklin's Song
• Better Not Wake The Baby
• Billy Liar
• Bridges And Balloons
• Burial Ground (feat. James Mercer)
• Calamity Song
• California One
• California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade
• Carolina Low
• Cavalry Captain
• Clementine
• Cocoon
• Constantinople
• Cullin of the Fold
• Dear Avery
• Don't Carry It All
• Down By The Water
• Easy Come, Easy Go
• Eli, The Barrowboy
• Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right
• Foregone
• From My Own True Love (lost At Sea)
• Grace Cathedral Hill
• Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
• Human Behavior
• I
• I Don't Mind
• I Was Meant For The Stage
• II
• III
• Isn't It A Lovely Night?
• IV
• January Hymn
• Julianne
• July, July!
• June Hymn
• Lake Song
• Leslie Anne Levine
• Like A Lion
• Los Angeles, I'm Yours
• Make You Better
• Margaret In Captivity
• Mistral
• My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist
• O Valencia
• O Valencia!
• Oceanside
• Ocenside
• Odalisque
• Of Angels And Angles
• On The Bus Mall
• Once In My Life
• One Engine
• Philomena
• Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
• Record Year
• Red Right Ankle
• Rise To Me
• Riverswim
• Row Jimmy
• Rox In The Box
• Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
• Severed
• Shankill Butchers
• Shanty For The Arethusa
• Shiny
• Sixteen Military Wives
• Sleepless
• Song For The Myla Goldberg
• Sons & Daughters
• Sucker's Prayer
• Summersong
• Sunshine
• The Abduction Of Margaret
• The Apology Song
• The Bachelor And The Bride
• The Bagman's Gambit
• The Bandit Queen
• The Chimbley Sweep
• The Crane Wife 1 and 2
• The Crane Wife 3
• The Engine Driver
• The Gymnast, High Above The Ground
• The Hazards Of Love (Revenge!)
• The Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle The Thistles Undone)
• The Hazards Of Love 2 (Wager All)
• The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned)
• The Infanta
• The Island
• The Island: Come and See, The Landlord's Daughter, You'll Not Feel the Drow
• The Kingdom Of Spain
• The Landlord's Daughter
• The Legionnaire's Lament
• The Mariner's Revenge Song
• The Perfect Crime 2
• The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
• The Rake's Song
• The Singer Addresses His Audience
• The Soldiering Life
• The Sporting Life
• The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V)
• The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
• The Wrong Year
• This Is Why We Fight
• Till The Water's All Long Gone
• Traveling On
• V
• Valerie Plame
• VI
• We Both Go Down Together
• When the War Came
• Why Would I Now?
• Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga)
• Wonder
• Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
• Youth and Beauty Brigade