Simon & Garfunkel
The Boxer
Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)

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C                                      c  b   Am
I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told
       G7
I have squandered my resistance 
                   G6               C
For a pocketful of mumbles such are promises

      c    b   Am
  All lies and jest
          G                 F                                C
  Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest
  b a G  G7  G6  C
  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm hm

When I left my home and my family I was no more than a boy           w/ gazou
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of a railway station running scared

  c  b   Am
  Laying low
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  Seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go
          G7             F    e    d     C
  Looking for the places only they would know

           Am  Em  Am  G(7)  C  w/ intro
    Laï la laï...

Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue

  I do declare
  There were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there
  Lalala lala lala

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    Laï la laï...

Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me

Em            Am       G     G7  G6  C  w/ slide
   Leading me    going home

In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of every glove that laid him down or cut him 'til he cried out

  In his anger and his shame
  "I am leaving, I am leaving" but the fighter still remains
  Hmmmmmmmm

    Laï la laï  x 8  w/ tension <<<

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