Chords for THE BOXER-PAUL SIMON-MIKE SINATRA COVER

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I am just a poor boy, though my story's [Am] seldom told
[G] I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles such [C] are promising
_ _ All [Am] lies and jests, [G] still a man hears [F] what he wants to hear, then disregards the rest
Mmm [G]-hmm-hmm, _ mmm-hmm [C]-hmm
_ When I left my home and my family, I [A] was no more than a [Am] boy [G] in the company of strangers
In the quiet of the railway [C] station, running scared
_ And [Am] laying low, [G] seeking out the poor [F] quarters where the ragged people go
[A] Looking [G] for the places only [G] they would [C] know
[Am] Sing la-la-la, _ [Em] la-la-la-la-la-la-la, la-la [Am] _ -la
[G] La-la-la-la-la-la-la [C]-la-la _ _ _ -la _
Asking only workman wages, I come looking [Am] for a job but I get [G] no offers
[Em] Just [G] a come on from the whores on [C] Seventh Avenue
_ _ [G] I do declare there were times when I [F] was so lonesome I took [C] some comfort there
La-la [G]-la, la-la-la
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_ Now the years are rolling by me, they [G] are rocking evenly
[Am] And [G] I am older than I once was, younger than I'll be, that's [C] not unusual
_ _ Nor it [Am] isn't strange, [G] after changes upon [F] changes, we are more or less the [Am] same
[G] After changes, we are more or less [C] the same
[Am] Sing la-la-la, [Em] la-la-la-la-la-la, [G] la [Am]-la
_ [G] La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la [C]-la
_ And _ I'm laying out my winter clothes, [A] wishing I was gone [G] going home
Where the New York City winters [C] aren't bleeding me, [Em] _ leading [Am] me _ to [G] going [Em] home _
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ In the clearing stands a boxer, in a fighter by his [Am] trade
[G] And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him [C] down
And I'll cut him till he cried out, in his anger and his [Am] shame
[G] I am leaving, [F] I am leaving, but the fighter still remains, [G] he still remains
[C] _ _ _ [A] Sing la [Am]-la-la, [Em] la-la-la-la-la-la, la [Am]-la _
[G] La-la-la-la-la-la-la [C]-la-la-la
La [Em]-la-la-la-la-la [Am]-la-la _ -la [G]-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la [C]-la-la _
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