Chords for Shawn Colvin & Alison Krauss - The Boxer [Live]

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_ _ _ _ I am just a poor boy, though my [Am] story's [Dm] seldom told
[C] I am squandering my resistance for a pocketful of mumbo
Such [F] are promises _
All [Am] [Dm] lies and jests, [C] still the man hears [Bb] what he wants to hear
And [F] disregards the rest
[Bb] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ When _ I left my home and my family, [C] I was no more than [Dm] a boy
In [C] the company of strangers, in the quiet of a railway [F] station, running scared
_ _ [Dm]
Laying [C] low, seeking out the poorer [Bb] quarters where the ragged [F] people [C] go
Looking for places [Bb] only [F] they would know
[Dm] Lying low, _ lying [Am] low, _ [Dm] lying low, _ [C] lying low _
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Asking no more workman's wages, I go looking [Dm] for a job but [C] I get no offer
Just to come home from the holes on [F] 7th Avenue
_ _ [C] I [Dm] do declare [C] there were times when [Bb] I was so lonesome but not so [F]
[C] comfortable
La la la
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_ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ La [Dm] la la
La [Am] la la
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] Now _ _ _ _ I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I [Dm] was gone, [C] going 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 stand the boxer and [C] the fighter by [Dm] his tray
And [C] he carries the reminders of every glove that's laid him [F] down or cut him to the pride
In his anger [Dm] and his shame, [C] I am leaving, [Bb] I am leaving but the fighter [F] still [C] remains
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