Chords for Alison Krauss The Boxer

_ [D] _ _ [G] Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Alison Krauss, Sean Colvin, and Jerry Douglas.
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_ I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told.
[C] I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbos, [F] such are promises.
_ All lies and [C] jests, still the man [Bb] hears what he wants to hear, [F] and disregards the rest.
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_ _ _ _ When I left my home and my family, I was no more [Dm] than a boy [C] in the company of strangers, in the quiet of a railway [F] station, running scared.
_ Laying low, [C] seeking out the [Bb] poorer quarters where the ragged people go, [C] looking for places [F] only they would know.
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Asking only worthless wages, I go looking [D] for a job, but I get [C] no offer, _ just to come on from the horse on [F] 7th Avenue. _
To declare [C] there were times when [Bb] I was so low, so much, so comforted, [C] they were lies.
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_ _ [Dm] I'm lying, _ [Am] lying, lying, lying, lying, [Dm] lying, lying, [C] lying, lying, lying, lying, [Dm]
lying, _ [Am] lying, lying, lying, _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [C] lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, [F] lying, _ _ _ _ lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, [C] lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying, lying
[Dm] I was gone, going [C] home Where the New York City winters [F] aren't leading me, [Am] _ leading [Dm] me, [C] going home
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_ _ In the clearing stands a boxer [C] and a fighter by his tray And he carries the reminders of every glove that's laid him [F] down
Cut him to the pride of his anger and his shame [C] I am leaving, [Bb] I am leaving, but the fighter [F] still remains _ _ _
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