Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer Chords

I am just a poor boy, though my story’s seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles such are promises
All lies and jest still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest

When I left my home and family I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of a railway station running scared
Laying low seeking out the
Poorer quarters where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know

Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie
Lie la lie, lie la lie la la la la lie la la la la lie

Asking only work mans 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

Ooo la la la la la la
Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie
Lie la lie, lie la lie la la la la lie la la la la lie

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.
Leading me, going home.

In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade.
And he carries the reminders, of ev’ry glove that laid him down.
Or cut him ‘till he cried out, in his anger and his shame.
“I am leaving, I am leaving.” But the fighter still remains.

Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie
Lie la lie, lie la lie la la la la lie la la la la lie