| The Boxer | Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel

       C                                              Ami
    1. I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told
               G
       I have squandered my resistance
                                               C
       for a pocket full of mumbles such are promises
                     Ami
       all lies and jests
                G                 F
       still a man hears what he wants to hear
                           C  G C
       and disregards the rest.

               C                                               Ami
    2. When I left my home and my family I was no more than a boy
               G
       in the company of strangers
               Dmi7                         C
       in the quiet of the railway station running scared
               Ami         G               F
       laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
                                C
       where the ragged people go
                G             F      Emi Dmi    C
       looking for the places only they would know.

               Ami G Ami F G C
    R: Lie la lie ...
              C                                          Ami
    3. Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job
                    G
       but I get no offers,
               Dmi7                       C
       just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
                Ami             Dmi7      C      F
       I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome
                             C           G C
       I took some comfort there oo-la-la ...
    R:

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    4. Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone
              G
       going home
                  Dmi7     G7          G        C
       where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
                Emi Ami    G  C
       leading me,  going home.

                C                                            Ami
    5. In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
               G
       and he carries the reminders
          G7
       of ev'ry glove that laid him down
           C       Dmi7 G7  C
       or cut him till he cried out
                              Ami
       in his anger and his shame
              G             F
       "I am leaving, I am leaving"
                                C
       but the fighter still remains.
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    R:
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