Paul Simon /Joan Baez - The Boxer Chords

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Thank you so much.
_ It's a pleasure to be here tonight with so many extraordinary singers
and players.
_ _ So many old friends of Joan and mine.
_ Thank you so much for having me. _
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_ _ _ _ _ The song that we're about to sing, we've only sung it in public once before.
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first Joan Baez 75th birthday celebration _ _ _ _ about five years ago or so. _ _ _ _
So _ if we're a little rusty, _
_ well we're the same age so. _ _
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ Oh, poor boy. _ _ _ _ _
[G] Stories [Am] seldom _ told, [G]
squanders of resistance.
_ [Em] _ [G] Four pockets [Em] full of mumbles, [G] such [C] are promises.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Wall [G] of [A] eyes and chest, [G] still a man hears [F] when he wants to hear, and _ _ [C] disregards the [Em] rest.
[F] When [G] _ _ _
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left my home and my family, I was no [G] more [Am] than a boy [G] in the company of strangers,
in the by of a railway _ [C] station from its care. _ _ _
_ [G] A [Am] railway love, [G] seeking out the poor [C] _ [F] corners, where the ragged [C] people go,
[G] looking for the [F] places [C] all they would know. _ _ _ _ _
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_ Asking on their workman's wages, I come [G] looking [Am] for a job, I get [G] no _ offers. _ _ _
Just to come home from the _ results [C] that I've endured. _ _ _ _
_ [Em] I do [Am] declare, _ [G] there were times when I was [F] so _ slow, I took some [C] comfort [G] there.
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_ _ Now the years are rolling by me, they are [G] rocking _
[Am] easily, and [G] I'm older than I once [Em] was,
[G] _ younger than I'll be, but that's not [C] unusual. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] What is it [Am] _ strange, [G] after _ changes, [F] home changes, we are never less [C] the same.
[Em] [Am] After [G] _ changes, [C] we are never less the same. _
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_ _ _ Then I'm laying out my winter clothes, _ [Em] wishing [A] I was gone [G] and going _ home,
_ _ where the wheelchaired _ _ actors [C] are meeting _ me, _ _ [E] _ _ _
[Em] meeting _ _ [A] me, _ _ _
_ [Am] _ going [G] _ _ home.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ In the clearing stands a boxer, and a [Em] fighter by [A] his trade,
and [G] he carries the _ [Em] reminders [G] of every beloved laden down [C] on a carton,
till he's cried out in his anger and [A] his shame,
[G] I'll leave him, [F] I'll leave him, but the fighter still [C] _ remains. _
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