Chords for Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer

[F#m] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
I am just a poor boy, though my [F#] story's [G#m] seldom told, [F#] I have squandered my resistance for
a pocket full of mumbles, such [B] are promises.
_ _ [F#] All lies [G#m] and jests, still [F#] the man hears [E] what he wants to hear, and [B] disregards the rest.
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When I left my home and my family, I was no [F#] more [G#m] than a boy [F#] in the company of strangers,
in the quiet of the railway [B] station, running scared.
_ _ [F#] They [G#m] know, [F#] seeking out the poor [E] quarters where the ragged people [B] go, looking [F#] for the [E] places
only they [B] would know.
_ [G#m] Lie, lie, lie, _ lie, lie, [D#m] lie, lie, lie, lie, [G#m] lie, lie, _ [F#] lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, [B] lie, lie, lie. _ _ _
_ _ Asking only workman's wages, I come looking [F#] for [G#m] a job, but I get [F#] no offers, _ just to come
home from the whores on [B] 7th Avenue. _ _
[F#] I [C#m] do declare, [F#] there were times when [E] I was so lonesome I took some comfort [B] there.
Lie, lie, [F#] lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, _
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_ [E] _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [G#m]
lie, lie, [B] lie, [D#m] _ _ _ [G#m]
lie, _ [F#] lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie,
lie, [B] lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.
_ [F#] _ _ _ [B] Then I made out my winter clothes, and [F#] wishing I [G#m] was gone, [F#] going _ home.
Where the New York City winters [B] are a-bleeding me, [D#m] _ bleeding _ [G#m] _
me, [F#] going home. _ _ _
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In the clearing stands a boxer and a [F#] fighter [G#m] by his trade, and he [F#] carries the reminders
of every glove that laid him down [B] or cut him till he cried out,
in [F#] his anger and his [G#m] shame, I [F#] am leaving, I [E] am leaving, but the fighter [F#] still remains.
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