Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (Lyrics)
Simon & Garfunkel
Key B93 BPM
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Intro
Verse 1
CI am just a poor boy
Though my story's C/Bseldom Amtold
I have Gsquandered my resistance
For a G7pocketful of G6mumbles
Such are Cpromises
All C/Blies and Amjest
Still a Gman hears what he Fwants to hear
And disregards the Crest
When I Cleft my home and F#my family
I was no more C/Bthan a Amboy
In the Gcompany of strangers
In the G7quiet of the G6railway station
CRunning scared
C/BLaying Amlow, seeking Gout the poorer Fquarters
Where the ragged people Cgo
Looking Gfor the places Fonly Gthey would Cknow
AmLie-la-lie
F#Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
EmLie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
Verse 2
Asking Conly workman's wages, I come looking C/Bfor a Amjob
But I get no Goffers
Just a G7come-on from the G6whores on 7th CAvenue
I C/Bdo declare, Amthere were Gtimes when I was Fso lonesome
Interlude
I took some comfort Cthere, Cla-la-la-la-la-la-la
AmLie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
EmLie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
Verse 3
Then I'm Claying out my winter clothes
And wishing C/BI was Amgone, going Ghome
Where the G7New York City G6winters aren't Cbleeding me
EmLeading Amme, going Chome
In the Cclearing stands a boxer
And a fighter C/Bby his Amtrade
And he Gcarries the reminders
Of G7every glove that G6laid him down
Or Ccut him till he cried out
In his anger C/Band his Amshame
"I am Gleaving, I am Fleaving"
But the fighter still Cremains
AmLie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
EmLie-la-lie
F#Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
G#Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
EmLie-la-lie
F#Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, G#lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
EmLie-la-lie
F#Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
BLie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
EmLie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, G#mlie-lie-lie-lie-lie
F#Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
EmLie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
BLie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
EmLie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
G#mLie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
EmLie-la-lie
ELie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
F#Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
Outro
EmLie-la-lie
ELie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, Blie-lie-lie-lie-lie
I love N.C.you