The Boxer Chords by Simon & Garfunkel

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I am just a poor boy, though my [Gb] [Abm] story's seldom told
I [Gb] have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles
[B] Such are promises
_ All [Gb] [Abm] lies and chess, [Gb] still the man [E] hears what he wants to hear
And [B] disregards the rest
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When I left my home and my family
I was [Gb] no more [Abm] than a boy in the [Gb] company of strangers
In the quiet of the railway [B] station, running scared
_ _ [Gb] [Abm] They ain't no [Gb] seeking out the [E] poor quarters where the ragged [B] people go
[Gb] Looking for the [E] places only [B] they would know
[Abm] La la la
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_ [B] Asking _ _ _ _ _ _ _ only workman's wages, I come [Gb] looking [Abm] for a job
But [Gb] I get no offers
_ Just to come home from the horizon, [B] 7th Avenue _ _
[Gb] I do [Abm] declare, there [Gb] were times when I [E] was so lonesome I took some [B] comfort there
La [Gb] la la _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Gb] _ _ Then [B] _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [B] I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing [Gb] I [Abm] was gone, going [Gb]
home
_ Where the New York City winters [B] aren't bleeding me, [Ebm] _ _ bleeding _ [Abm]
me, go [Gb] home _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ In _ the clearing stands a boxer and a [Gb] fighter [Abm] by his trade
[Gb] And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him [B] down
Or cup-tinted, he cried out in [Gb] his anger [Abm] and his shame
[Gb] I am leaving, [E] I am leaving, but the fighter [Gb] still remains
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