Chords for Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (from The Concert in Central Park)

[Db] _ _ How you doing?
Are you cold? _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ [N] _ God, you [Db] look great in skin. _
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_ I am just a poor boy,
With my story [Ab] seldom [Bbm] told.
I have _ _ [Ab] squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbo,
[Db] Such are promises. _
_ [Ab] All [Bbm] lies and jests,
Till [Ab] the man hears [Gb] what he wants to hear
And [Db] disregards the rest.
[Bbm] Mmm [Ab]-hmm, mmm-hmm, mmm [Db]-hmm. _ _ _ _ _
_ When I left my home and my family,
I was no more [Bbm] than a boy
[Ab] In the company of strangers,
In the quiet of the railway [Db] station,
Running scared. _ _
[Bbm] Laying low,
[Ab] Seeking out the [Gb] poor quarters
Where the raggedy people [Db] go,
[Bbm] Looking [Ab] for the places [Gb] only they [Db] would know.
La [Bbm] la lai,
La [Fm] la lai lai lai lai,
La [Bbm] la lai,
_ La [Ab] la lai lai lai lai lai lai [Db] lai lai. _ _ _ _
_ Asking only workman's wages,
I come looking [Bbm] for a job,
But I get no [Ab] offers.
Just to come on from a horizontal seventh [Db] avenue,
_ _ I do [Bbm] declare there were [Ab] times when I was [Gb] so lonesome,
I took [Db] some comfort there.
[Bbm] Ooh, la la [Ab] lai lai _ _ _ _ _
[Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ lai lai lai lai.
Now the years are rolling by me,
They are rocking [Bbm] evenly,
And I [Ab] am older than I once was,
And younger than I'll be,
That's not [Db] unusual.
_ _ _ [Ab] No, it [Bbm] isn't strange.
[Ab] After changes, [Gb] upon changes,
We are more or less [Db] the same.
[Ab] After changes, [Gb] we are more or less [Db] the same. _
[Bbm] La la lai,
La la [Fm] lai lai lai lai,
La [Bbm] la lai,
_ [Ab] La la lai lai lai lai _
[Bbm] _ _ lai lai [Fm] lai lai lai lai [Bbm] lai lai.
La [Ab] la lai,
La la lai lai lai [Db] lai lai _ _ _ _ _ lai lai lai lai.
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes,
Wishing I [Bbm] was gone, [Ab] going home,
_ Where the New York City [Db] winters are leading me,
_ [Fm] _ Leading [Bbm] me _ to [Db] go [Ab] home. _ _
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_ In the clearing stands a boxer,
And a fighter [Bbm] by his trade,
[Ab] And he carries the reminders
Of every love that laid him [Db] down,
Or cut him till he cried out
In [Fm] his anger [Bbm] and his shame,
[Ab] I am leaving, I am [Gb] leaving,
But the fighter still [Db] remains,
Yes, [Ab] he still remains.
_ [Gb] _ [Db] _ _
_ [Bbm] La la lai,
_ [Fm] La la lai lai lai _ [Bbm] _ _ lai,
[Ab] La lai lai lai lai [Bbm] lai lai lai _ [Fm] lai lai lai [Bbm] lai.
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