The Boxer Chords by Joan Baez

Oh, we're up in the series legendary department now.
So, _ please welcome Paul Simon. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Thank you so much.
It's a pleasure to be here tonight with so many extraordinary
singers and players,
so many old friends of Joan and mine.
Thank you so much for having me. _ _ _
_ _ The song that we're about to sing, we've only sung
it in public once before.
It was at the first Joan Baez 75th birthday celebration,
_ about five years ago or so. _
_ So, if we're a little rusty, well, we're the same age, so_
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[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [C] Mmm, _ a poor boy. _
Stories [Am] seldom told, [G] squanders his resistance.
For a pocket full of mumbles, such are [C] promises. _ _
[A] All lies and [D] jest, still a [G] man hears what he [F] wants to hear and disregards the [G] rest.
Mmm, _ _ _ [C] mmm. _ _ _ _ _ _
When I left my home and my family, I was no [Am] more than a boy [G] in the company of strangers.
In the quiet of the railway [C] station, running scared.
_ _ [Am] Laying low, [D] seeking out the poorer [F] quarters, where the [C] ragged people go,
[G] looking for [C] the places only they would know.
[Am] Lie, lie, _ [Em] lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, [Am] lie, _ [Em] lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
lie.
Asking only workman's wages
I come [Em] looking for a job, [G] I get no offers
Just to come home from the [C] horizons of the avenue
_ I do [Am] declare, [G] there were times when [F] I was so [C] slow
I took some comfort there, [G] la la la la la la
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_ _ _ _ _ Now the years are rolling by
They are rocking easily
And [G] I am older than I once was
And younger than I'll be, but that's [C] not unusual
_ _ [G] Lord, isn't it [D] strange
After changes, the [F] poem changes
We are more or less the same
[G] After changes, [C] we are more or less the same
Sing [Am] la la la
La [Em] _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _
la [G] la la la la _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [Em] _ la la [Am] la _
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Mmm
_ _ _ _ Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
Wishing I was [G] gone, going home
Where the New York City winters [C] aren't leading me
_ [Em] _ Leading _ [A] me [Am] Going [G] home _ _ _
[C] In _ _ _ _ _ _ the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
[D] He carries the reminders
[G] Of every glove that laid him down
[C] Until he cried out in his anger and [Am] his shame
Well [G] I am leaving, [C] I am leaving
But the fighter still remains, [G] still [F] remains
_ [C] _ _ Sing [Am] la la la
La la la la la [E] la la [Am] la la
La [G] la la la la la la la [Am] la
La la [Em] la la la la la la la
_ La la la la [Em] la la la [E] la la
_ _ [Em] La la la la la la la [Am] la la
La [G] la la la la la [C] la la la
Thank _ [Am] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ you!