Chords for Simon and Garfunkel - I'm just a poor boy.

[F#m] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
I am just a poor boy, though my story's [G#m] seldom told, I have [F#] swung my resistance for a pocket
full of mumbles such [B] are promises.
_ _ [F#] All [G#m] eyes and chests, [F#] still the man [E] hears what he wants to hear, and [F#] disregards the [B] rest.
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When I left my home and my family, I was [F#] no more [G#m] than a boy [F#] in the company of strangers,
in the quiet of the railway [B] station, running scared.
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[G#m] They go [F#] seeking out the [E] poor quarters where the ragged [B] people go, [F#] looking for the places
[E] only [B] they would go.
_ _ [G#m] Violet lights, violet [D#m] light, [F#] violet light, [G#m] violet light, _ [F#] violet light, violet _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ light.
Asking only workmen's wages, I come [F#] looking [G#m] for a job, but I get no [F#] offers, _ _ just to come
home from the horizon, [B] 7th Avenue. _ _
[F#] I do [C#] declare, [F#] there were times when [E] I was so lonesome, I took some [B] comfort there.
La [F#] la la la la la la, _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[G#m] _ _ la la [D#m] la la. _ _
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[B] Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and [F#] wishing [G#m] I was home, [F#] going home, _ where the
New York City winters [B] aren't bleeding me, _ [D#m] _ bleeding _
[G#m] me, _ [F#] going home. _
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_ In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter [F#] by [G#m] his trade, and [F#] he carries the reminders
of every glove that made him down, [B] or cup-tinted, he cried out in his [F#] anger and [G#m] his shame,
[F#] I am leaving, [E] I am leaving, but the fighter [F#] still remains here.
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_ _ [G#] Violet light, _ [D#m] violet light, _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ violet [D#m] light, violet light, _ [G#m] _ _ violet [F#] light, _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _
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[F#] _ _ _ [G#m] violet light, _ _
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[D#m] _ _ violet light, [G#] violet light. _ _ _
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