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Verse 1
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
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 some 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
La Da Dum Dum La Da Da Dum
Verse 2
Medicating in the sun with pinch doses of laudanum
Longing for the old fecundity of my homeland
Curses to this mirage! A bottle of ancient Shiraz
The 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 some 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
La Da Dum Dum La Da Da Dum
Interlude
Chorus
If only some 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,
be back again, be back again, O be back again
Oh oh oh oh oh, la la la la, la la la la, oh oh oh oh
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