The Boxer
Paul Simon / Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water (1969)
| C | Am |
| I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom | told, |
| G | Dm | G | C |
| I have | squandered my resistance - For a | pocket full of | mumbles, such are | promises. |
| Am | G | F |
| All lies and | jest, still a | man hears what he | wants to hear, |
| C | G | F | C |
| And disregards the | rest. (hm-hm | hm, hm -hm | hm-hm hm-hm | hm) |
| C | Am | G |
| When I | left my home and my family, I was no more than a | boy - In the | company of strangers, |
| Dm | G | C |
| In the | quiet of a | railway station, | running scared, |
| Am | G | F |
| Laying | low, seeking | out the poorer | quarters - |
| C | G | F | C |
| Where the ragged people | go, Looking | for the places | only they would | know. |
| Am | G | Am |
| Lie la | lie, Lie la | lie la lie la lie, Lie la | lie, |
| F | G | C |
| Lie la | lie la la la | lie la la la la | lie. |
| C | Am | G |
| Asking | only workman's wages I come looking for a | job - But I get no | offers, |
| Dm | G | C |
| Just a | come-on from the | whores on Seventh | Avenue. |
| Am | G | F |
| I do de | clare, there were | times when I was | so lonesome, |
| C | G | F | C |
| I took some comfort | there. (La la | Lie, la la | lie lie la la | lie) |
| C | Am | G |
| Then I'm | laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was | gone, Going | home; |
| Dm | G | C | Am | G |
| Where the | New York City | winters aren't | bleeding me | Leading me, going | home. |
| C | Am |
| In the | clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his | trade, |
| G | G7 |
| And he | carries a reminder of | ev'ry glove that laid him down |
| C | Am | C | Am |
| Or | cut him till he | cried out in his | anger and his | shame: |
| G | F | C |
| "I am | leaving, I am | leaving, But the fighter still re | mains". |
| Am | G | Am |
| Lie la | lie, Lie la | lie la lie la lie, Lie la | lie, |
| F | G | C |
| Lie la | lie la la la | lie la la la la | lie. |
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