Boxer Chords by Lee Dewyze
Intro: C - picked or strummed Capo 3
C
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B------1--------------|
G---------- 0---------|
D--------2------------|
A----3----------------|
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Verse 1:
C
I am just a poor boy
Am
Though my story's seldom told,
G
I have squandered my resistance
G C
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises.
Am
All lies and jest,
G F
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
C G C
And disregards the rest.
Verse 2:
C
When I left my home and my family
Am
I was no more than a boy
G
In the company of strangers,
G C
In the quiet of a railway station running scared.
Am G F
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
C
Where the ragged people go
G F C
Looking for the places only the would know.
Chorus 1:
Am Em
Lie la lie, lie la lie lie, lie la lie,
Am
Lie la lie,
G C
Lie la lie la lie la lie la la la la lie.
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Verse 3:
C
Asking only workmans wages
Am
I come looking for a job
G
But I get no offers,
G C
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue.
Am G F
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
C G C
I took some comfort there, la la la
Verse 4:
C
Now the years are rolling by me
Am
They are rocking evenly,
G
And I am older than I once was
G C
And younger than I’ll be that’s not unusual.
Am G F
It isn’t strange, after changes upon changes
C
We are more or less the same
G F C
After changes we are more or less the same.
Chorus 2: (Same as chorus one)
Verse 5:
C
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
Am
And wishing I was gone,
G
Going home
F C
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me,
Em Am G
Bleeding me ____ Going home.
Verse 6:
C
In the clearing stands the boxer
Am
And a fighter by his trade
G
And he carries the reminders
G
Of Every glove that layed him down
C
Or cut him till he cried out
Am
In his anger and his shame,
G F
"I am leaving, I am leaving!"
C
But the fighter still remains.
G F C
I am leaving but the fighter still remains
Chorus 3: (Same) Repeat 3x to end
