The Legionnaire's Lament Uke tab by Decemberists (Baritone Chords)

6 Chords used in the song: Dm, F, Gm, A, Bb, C

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Artist: 
Year:  2002
Difficulty: 
3.67
(Intermediate)
Key: DmChords
Dm Dm
I'm a Legionnaire
F F
Camel in disrepair
Gm Gm
Hoping for a Frigidaire
Dm Dm A A
To come passing by
Dm Dm
I am on reprieve
F F
Lacking my joie de vivre
Gm Gm
Missing my gay Paris
Dm Dm A A
In this desert dry
F F
And I wrote my girl

Told her I would not return
Bb Bb
I've terribly taken a turn
Dm Dm A A
For the worst now, I fear
Dm Dm
It's been a year or more
F F
Since they shipped me to this foreign shore
Gm Gm
Fighting in a foreign war
Dm Dm A A
So far away from my home
F F
If only some rain would fall
C C Bb Bb
On the houses and the boulevards
Gm Gm
And the sidewalk bagatelles
Bb Bb
It's like a dream
F F
With the roar of cars
C C Bb Bb
And the lolling of the cafe bars
Gm Gm Bb Bb
The sweetly sleeping, sweeping of the Seine
Gm Gm Dm Dm A A Dm Dm
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again
F F
La la la la
Gm Gm Dm Dm A A
La la la la
Dm Dm
Medicating in the sun
F F
Pinch doses of laudanum
Gm Gm
Longing for the old fecundity
Dm Dm A A
Of my homeland
Dm Dm
Curses to this mirage!
F F
A A bottle of ancient Shiraz
Gm Gm
A A smattering of distant applause
Dm Dm A A
Is ringing in my poor ears
Dm Dm
On the old left bank
F F
My baby in a charabanc
Gm Gm
Riding up the width and length
Dm Dm A A
Of the Champs-Elysee

F F
If only some rain would fall
C C Bb Bb
On the houses and the boulevards
Gm Gm
And the sidewalk bagatelles
Bb Bb
It's like a dream
F F
With the roar of cars
C C Bb Bb
And the lolling of the cafe bars
Gm Gm Bb Bb
The sweetly sleeping, sweeping of the Seine
Gm Gm Dm Dm A A Dm Dm
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again

Uke tab by , 14 Apr 2011

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The Bb during the "lolling of cafe bars" in the chorus doesn't sound quite right to me. Otherwise, spot on.
14 Apr 2011
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