Verse shapes -
Dm - x57765
F - x33211
F# - x44322
(F# is just a passing chord between F and G in verse)
G - x55433
Gm - 355333
A - x02220
Chorus shapes -
F - 133211
C/G - 332010
Gm - 355333
Bb - x13331
Bbm - x13321
[Verse 1]
Dm F
I'm a legionnaire camel in disrepair
F# G Gm A
Hoping for a frigid heir to come passing by
Dm F
I am on reprieve lacking my joie de vivre
F# G Gm A
Missing my gay Paris in this desert dry
Dm F
And I wrote my girl told her I would not return
F# G Gm A
Terribly taken a turn for the worse now I fear
Dm F
It's been a year or more since they shipped me to this foreign shore
F# G Gm A
Fighting in a foreign war so far away from my home
[Chorus]
F C/G
If only some rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards
Gm Bb
And the side walk bagatelles it's like a dream
F C/G
With the roar of cars and the lulling of the cafe bars,
Gm Bb
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine.
Bbm
Lord I don't know if I'll ever
Dm F
be back again La la da dum
F# G Gm A
La la la low
[Verse 2]
Dm F
Medicating in the sun pinched doses of laudanum
F# G Gm A
Longing for the old fecundity of my homeland
Dm F
Curses to this mirage, a bottle of ancient Shiraz
F# G Gm A
A smattering of distant applause is ringing in my poor ears
Dm F
On the old left bank my baby in a charabanc
F# G Gm A
Riding up the width and length of the Champs Elysees
[Chorus]
F C/G
If only some rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards
Gm Bb
And the side walk bagatelles it's like a dream
F C/G
With the roar of cars and the lulling of the cafe bars,
Gm Bb
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine.
Bbm
Lord I don't know if I'll ever
Dm F
be back again La la da dum
F# G Gm A
La la la low
[Interlude]
Dm F
F# G Gm A
[Chorus]
F C/G
If only some rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards
Gm Bb
And the side walk bagatelles it's like a dream
F C/G
With the roar of cars and the lulling of the cafe bars,
Gm Bb
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine.
Bbm
Lord I don't know if I'll ever
[Ending]
F C/G
be back again, be back again,
Gm Bb
Be back again, I'll be back again
F C/G
Ah ah ahh ohh ah ah ahh ohhh
Gm Bb Bbm
La la la lo oh ohh oh ohh
[Outro accordion light guitar]
F C/G
Gm Bb Bbm Dm