Chords for Paul Simon “The Boxer” w/ Lukas Nelson, Natalie Merchant and friends at Newport Folk, July 23, 2022

Yeah!
_ _ [A#] _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] Old family friend?
_ [C] _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I don't know anything [G] about that.
Yeah. _ _ _
_ [N] I wasn't trying to hide it.
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_ _ _ Thank you. _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Poor boy.
_ Sorry [G] seldom told.
Squanter's wishes
_ for a pocket full of
mumbles [C] of troubles.
_ _ _ [A#m] All [A] eyes and chest
fill the [D] man's
where he [Dm] wants to kill you
and [C] disfigure his eyes. _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ When I left my
home with my family
no more [Am] than a boy
[G] in the courtyard stages
in the choir
of the railway [C] station last year.
_ [A] Laying low [G] seeking out
the [F] poor and loveless
where the [C] rambly people go [G] looking for
[F] a pension on the river.
Say
[Am] La la la
La la [Em] la la la la
La [Am] _
_ _ [G] la la
_ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Asking
all the workers waiters
I come [G] looking [Am] for a job
[G] get no offers
just to come home
from a home so [C] sad and blue.
_ I do [Am] declare
[G] that all the times I saw
[C] a song I took so profitarily.
La la [G] la la la la la
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[F] La _ [C] _ _ _ [Am] la la
La [Em] la la
La la la la la la
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_ La _ _ la la
La la la
Asking all the workers
wishing their [Am] lives gone [G] to war. _
_ Where the dogs and the
whippers [C] are beating me
_ _ [Em] beating [Am] me beating me [G] going home. _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Then the clearing stands
across the road
fired [Am] by his train
[G] and carried through my room.
Every blow
and every hit and [C] down
will cut me to the ground.
And his [Am] anger and his shame [G] I'm leaving I'm [F] leaving
but the fire still [C] remains [G] still remains.
[C] _ _ _ _ La [Am] la la
La [Em] la la
La _
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[G] _ la la
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_ _ [C] _ La la la
La la _ _ _ _ _ la
La _
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