The Legionnaire’s Lament

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I'm a legionnaire, camel in disrepair Hoping for a Frigidaire 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 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] If only summer rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards And the sidewalk 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 [Refrain] La la la la dum dum La la la low [Verse 2] Medicating in the sun, pinched doses of laudanum Longing for the old fecundity of my homeland Curses to this mirage, a bottle of ancient Shiraz 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 [Chorus] If only summer rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards And the sidewalk 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 [Chorus] If only summer rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards And the sidewalk 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 [Outro] Be back again Be back again I'll be back again