Chords for The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel (Cover by Jasper and Jane Hawkins)

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_ _ _ _ _ _ I'm just a poor boy and my [Bbm] story's seldom told
[Ab] Knives swamped in my resistance
For a pocket full of my loose, I shouldn't wrong or sin
_ _ All [Bbm] eyes and [Ab] chests, still a man he [Gb] is
When he wants to hear him, [Db] disregards the race
[Ab] Oo-o-o [Fm]-o-o-o-o-o [Db]-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
When I left my home and my family
I was no more [Bbm] than a boy
[Ab] In the company of [Fm] strangers
In the [Ab] quiet of the railway [Db] station running the skip
_ [Bbm] Laying low, [Abm] seeking out the [Gb] quarter quarters
Where the ragged [Db] people go
[Ab] Looking for the places only [Db] they would know
[Bbm] La la lai, [Fm] la la lai la lai la [Bbm] _ lai
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Seeking only workman's wages
I come looking [Bbm] for a job [Ab] but I get no offers _
[Fm] Just [Ab] a come up from the whores on [Db] 7th Avenue
_ I [Bbm] do declare there were times [Gb] when I was so lonesome
I took [Db] some comfort in
[Ab] La lai, la lai lai la [Fm] lai la lai
_ [Ab] _ _ [Db] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ The years are rolling by me, they are rocking [Bb] evenly
[Ab] I am older than I [Fm] once was
[Ab] Younger than I'll be, [Db] that's not unusual _
_ Though it isn't strange, [Ab] after changes [Gb] upon changes
We are more or [Db] less the same
[Ab] After changes we are more or [Db] less the same
_ [Bbm] La lai, [Fm] la lai lai la lai [Bbm] la lai
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
[Db] Well _ _ I'm laying out my winter clothes
Wishing [Bb] I was born [Eb] growing _ [Fm] old
But [Ab] in New York City [Db] winter's on and bleeding me
[Fm] _ _ Bleeding [Bbm] me, _ [Ab] going home
[Fm] _ _ _ [Ab] _
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_ The clearance stands a boxer and a fighter [Bbm] by his trade
[Ab] And he carries the [Fm] reminders of every [Ab] blood that laid him [Db] down
Oh God, he'll be crying out in his anger [Bbm] and his shame
[Ab] I am leaving, [Gb] I am leaving, but the fighters [Db] still remain
_ [Fm] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
[Bbm] La lai, _ [Fm] la lai lai la lai la [Bbm] lai
La [Ab] lai lai la lai la [Bbm] lai la lai
_ La [Fm] lai lai la lai la lai [Bbm] la lai
[Ab] La lai lai la lai la [Bbm] lai la lai
La [Fm] lai lai la lai la lai la [Bbm] lai
La [Ab] lai lai _ _
_ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
la [Bbm] lai _ _ [Ab] _ _
la [Bbm] lai lai
La [Fm] lai lai la lai la lai [Bbm] lai lai
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