Chords for Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer

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I am just a poor boy, though my [Gb] story's [Abm] seldom told, [Gb] I squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles [B] such are promises.
_ _ [Gb] All lies [Abm] and [Gb] jests, till the man hears [E] what he wants to hear and [B] disregards the rest.
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When I left my home and my family, [Gb] I was no more than [Abm] a boy in [Gb] the company of strangers, in the quiet of the railway [B] station, rather scared.
_ _ [Gb] [Abm] They go [Gb] seeking out the [E] poorer quarters where the ragged people [B] go, looking [Gb] for the places [E] only they [B] would know.
[Abm] La la la, _ la [Ebm] la la la la, [Gb] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ [Gb] la la la la _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
la la.
Asking only workers' wages, I come looking [Gb] for [Abm] a job, but I get no [Gb] offers, _ just to come home from the horizon, [B] Seventh Avenue. _ _
[Gb] I do [Db] declare, there [Gb] were times when [E] I was so lonesome I took some [B] comfort there.
La [Gb] la la, la la la la _
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[E] _ _ [B] _ _ la, [Abm] la la la la [Ebm] la.
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_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [B] Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing [Abm] I was gone, [Gb] going home, _ where the New York City winters [B] aren't bleeding me, _ [Ebm] bleeding _ [Abm] me, _ [Gb] going home. _ _ _ _
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In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter [Gb] by [Abm] his trade, [Gb] and he carries the reminders of every glove that made him [B] down or cut him till he cried out in his [Gb] anger and [Abm] his shame,
[Gb] I am leaving, [E] I am leaving, but the fighter [Gb] still remains.
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[Ab] La la la, _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _
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_ [Abm] _ _ la, la la [Ebm] _ _
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_ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] la la la.
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