Chords for The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel Cover

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_ Alrighty, well I got the finger picks out, let me play you my all time favorite _ _ Simon
and Garfunkel song, it's called The Boxer _ _ and it came out in _ 1969 _ _ on their last album
they did together, which was the Bridge Over Treble Waters album.
_ _ And it's the first song I heard on the radio album that I'm not heard of.
_ I was so excited because I knew there was another Simon and Garfunkel record coming. _
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I really wanted to learn that song the instant I [N] heard it, loved it ever since, it's an
absolute classic _ and one of the best songs ever _ written as far as I'm concerned.
So again I'll have to ask for your help if you know the Art Garfunkel part, _ he's not
here today again so if you want to sing along feel free, I'll do the other part on the guitar
and we'll do it together, it's called The Boxer.
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I am just a poor boy, and all my stories seldom [Am] told.
I [G] have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles such [C] a man says. _ _ _ _
[G] All I see [Am] is still a [G] man, he is what [F] he wants to hear, and disregards [C] the rest.
Hmmm, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Hmmm _ _ _ _ _ _ When _ _ _ I left my home and my family,
no more [G] than [Am] a boy in [G] the company of strangers, quiet of the railway [C] station, running _ scared. _ _
_ _ [G] Laying [Am] low seeking [G] out the [F] poor reporters, where the ragged people [C] go.
_ Looking for the places [F] only they would _ know.
_ La la [Am] lai, _ _ la [Em] la lai la lai la lai la [Am] _ lai _ la [G] lai la lai la lai la [C] lai la lai la lai la _ _ _ lai.
_ _ _ _ Asking only workman's wages, I come looking [Am] for a job but I get [G] no offer. _ _ _ _
Just to come on from the horizon, _ [C]
7th Avenue.
_ _ _ _ I [Bm] do [Am] declare there [G] were times when [F] I was so lonesome I took some [C] comfort there.
[G] La lai, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
la [Am] lai _ lai [Em] la lai la lai [Am] lai lai _ _ _ _ lai lai lai lai la lai la lai la [C] lai la lai _ lai lai.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now the years are rolling by me, they are rocking _ [Am] easily.
I [G] am older than I once was, younger than I'll be, that's not unusual. _ _ _ _ _
No it [Am] isn't strange, [G] after changes upon [F] changes we are more or less [C] the same.
[G] After changes we are [Fm] more or less the [C] same.
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lai, _ _ _ [Em] la lai lai la lai la [Am] lai _ _ lai [G] lai lai lai lai lai lai [C] lai lai lai lai lai lai. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I'm laying out my winter clothes, wishing I [Am] was home, [G] going _ home. _
With the New York City winters [C] iron bleeding _ me, _ [Em] _ _
bleeding _ _ [Am] me, _ _ _ _ [G] going home. _ _ _
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In the clearing stands a boxer, he's defied by [Am] his trade [G] and he carries the reminders
of every club that's laid him [C] down or cut him till he cried out in his anger and [Am] his shame.
[G] I am leaving, I [F] am leaving, but the fighter still [C] remains at [G] home.
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