The Boxer Chords by Simon & Garfunkel

[F#m] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ I am just a poor boy, though my story [F#] is seldom [G#m] told, I [F#] swallowed my resistance, for a pocket
full of mumbles, [B] such are promises.
_ _ [F#] All lies and [G#m] jests, [F#] till the man hears what [E] 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 in the [F#] company of strangers,
in the quiet Delta Railway [B] Station, running scared.
_ _ [F#]
[G#m] Laying low, [F#] seeking out the [E] poor quarters, where the ragged [B] people go, [F#] looking for the
[E] places only [B] they would know.
Lai la [G#m] lai, Lai [D#m] la lai lai, Lai [F#] lai lai, [G#m] _ _ Lai [F#] la lai lai, Lai la lai.
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Asking only workers' wages, I come looking [G#m] for a job, but I get no [F#] offers, just to come
on from the hordes on Seventh [B] Avenue. _
I do [C#] declare there [F#] were times when I [E] was so alone, so much with some [B] comfort there.
La la [F#] la la la la la_
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_ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ La [G#m] la la _ la la [D#m] la _ _ [G#m] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ la_
_ [B] _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] And I'm laying out my winter clothes and [F#] wishing [G#m] I was gone [F#] and going home.
_ Where the New York City [B] winters aren't bleeding me, [D#m] _ leaving _ [G#m] _
me, [F#] going home. _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ 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 cut him.
He totally cried out in his [F#] anger and [G#m] his shame,
[F#] I am leaving, [E] I am leaving, but the [F#] fighters still play the game.
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_ [G#] La la la la _ [D#m] la la _ la_
[G#] La la la la [F#] la la _ [G#m] la_
_ _ La la [D#m] la la la la la_
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_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ La la [D#m] la _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ [F#] la la _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ la la_
[Bm] La la la _ [F#] _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [D#m] _
_ _ [G#] _ _ la la la la_
[F#] La la la la _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ la la [D#m] la_
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[F#] _ [G#m] _ [F#] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
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