Chords for The Boxer with Shawn Ishimoto & Ernie Cruz Jr.

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I am just a poor boy, though my story is seldom told.
I have [G] squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, [C] such are promises.
_ _ All [Am] lies in jest, [G] still the man [F] hears what he wants to hear, and [C] disregards the rest.
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_ _ _ _ When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy [G] in the company of strangers, in the quiet of the railway [C] station, running scared.
_ _ [G] [Am] Laying low, [G] seeking out the [F] poorer quarters where the ragged [C] people go, [G] looking for the [F] places only they [C] would know.
Lie [Am] lie lie, lie [Em] lie lie, [G] lie lie lie, lie [Am] lie lie, _ [F] lie lie lie, [G] lie lie [C] lie. _
_ _ _ _ _ Asking only workless wages, I come looking for [Am] a job, [G] but I get no offers, _ lest I come on from the whores on Seventh [C] Avenue. _
_ [G] I do [Am] declare [G] there were times when [F] I was so lonesome I took some comfort [C] there
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_ _ _ _ _ And I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone [G] going home
Where the New York City winters [C] are and bleeding me, _ [Em] _ leading _ [C] me [Em] to [G] going home.
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[Cm] _ [C] _ _ _ In _ the clearing stand the boxer and the fighter by [Am] his trade, [G] and he carries the reminders
of every glove that laid him down [C] or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his [Am] shame,
I [G] am leaving, I [F] am leaving, but the fighter still [C] plays, still [G] plays.
_ Lie, [C] lie, _ _ _ lie, _ _ _ [G] lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, [Am] lie, [Em] lie, lie, [F] lie, _
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