The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel chords

Key: C Singer/Band: Simon & Garfunkel


[Verse]
[C]I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom [Am]told
I have [G]squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles such are [C]promises
All lies and [Am]jest still a [G]man hears what he [F]wants to hear
And disregards the [C]rest [G] [C]
When I left my home and family I was no more than a [Am]boy
In the [G]company of strangers
In the [Dm7]quiet of a railway station [C]running scared
Laying [Am]low seeking o[G]ut the
poorer qua[F]rters where the ragged people[C] go
Looking f[G]or the places o[F]nly t[Em]hey w[Dm]ould k[C]now
[Interlude]
[Am]Lie-la-lie
[G]Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
Lie la [Am]lie
[G]Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la [G]la la [C]lie
[Verse]
Asking only workmans wages I come looking for a [Am]job
But I get no [G]offers
Just a [Dm7]come-on from the whores on seventh [C]avenue
I do [Am]declare there were [Dm7]times when [G]I was [F]
so lonesome I took some comfort th[C]ere
[Interlude]
[G]Ooo-la-la la la la la [C]
[Am]Lie-la-lie
[Em]Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
Lie la [Am]lie
[G]Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la [G]la [C]la lie
[Verse]
[C]Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
[G7]And [C]wishing I was [Am]gone
Going [G]home where the [Dm7]New York [G7]City winters [G]aren't [C]bleeding
me
Leading me [Am]
Going [G]Home
In the [C]clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his [Am]trade
And he [G]carries the reminders
Of e[G7]v'ry glove that l[C]aid him down
or cut him '[Dm7]till he [G7]cried out [C]
In his anger and his [Am]shame
"I am Le[G]aving, I am Lea[F]ving." But the
Fighter still r[C]emains [G] [C] [G] [F] [C]
[Interlude]
[Am]Lie-la-lie
[Em]Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
Lie la [Am]lie
[G]Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la [Am]la lie
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