The Legionnaire's Lament

Lyrics for The Legionnaire's Lament

I'm a Legionnaire Camel in disrepair Hoping for a frigid air To come passing by I am on reprieve Lacking my joie de vive Missing my gay Paree In this desert dry And I wrote my girl Told her I would not return 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 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 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 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 Be back again Be back again I'll be back again