Chords for Simon & Garfunkel - the boxer

[Gbm] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
I am just a poor boy, though my [Gb] story is [Abm] seldom told
[Gb] I ask one in my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles
[B] Such are promises
_ All [Gb] lies [Abm] and [Gb] jests, till a man [E] hears what he wants to hear
And [B] disregards the rest
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[B] When _ _ _ _ _ _ I left my home, my family, [Gb] I was no [Abm] more than a boy
In [Gb] the company of strangers, in the quiet of the railway [B] station, running scared
_ _ [Gb] [Abm] They know, [Gb] seeking out the [E] poor quarters where the ragged [B] people go
Looking [Gb] for the [E] places only [B] they would know
[Abm] Lai lai lai, _ [Ebm] lai lai lai lai lai lai lai [Abm] lai lai _ [Gb] _
lai lai lai lai [B] lai lai lai lai lai lai _ _ _ _
_ Asking only workers' wages, I come looking [Abm] for a job, but [Gb] I get no offers
_ Just to come home from the [B] horizon, 7th Avenue _ _
[Gb] I do [Abm] declare, there [Gb] were times when I [E] was so lonesome, I took some [B] comfort there
[Gb] _ _ Lai _
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[E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Gb] _ _
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_ lai [Ebm] lai, lai lai lai lai _ [Abm] _ _
_ [Gb] lai lai lai lai lai lai lai lai [B] lai lai lai lai lai _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [B] lai lai lai lai
Laying out my winter clothes [Gb] and wishing [Abm] I was home, [Gb] going home
_ Where the New York City [B] winters are bleeding me, [Ebm] _ bleeding _ [Abm] _
me, [Gb] going home _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ In _ the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter [Abm] by his trade, [Gb] and he carries the reminders
Of every love that made him, now [B] a long-cut tin, till he cried out
In his [Gb] anger and [Abm] his shame, [Gb] I am leaving, [E] I am leaving, but the [Gb] fighter still remains
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[Abm] Lai lai lai, _ [Ebm] lai lai lai lai lai lai [Ab] lai lai [Gb] lai lai lai [Abm] lai lai lai lai lai lai lai _
[Ebm] _ [Abm] _ _ Live [Gb] _ _ _
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[Abm] your _ _ _ [Gb] life. _
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Gb] Bye. _ _
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