Marie Dubas Mon Legionnaire English subtitles Edith Piaf

While this song is generally associated with Edith Piaf, even to the point of being wrongly ascribed as autobiographical, it was first performed in 1936 by Marie Dubas, then covered by Piaf. Written by Raymond Asso and Marguerite Monnot it is a romantic war tragedy, about love,desire, passion. abandonment and death. It's also been covered by Serge Gainsbourg in a homoerotic mode which can be found on YouTube and DailyMotion.