The Boxer Chords by Simon & Garfunkel

[Start]

[Verse]
B                     
■ I am just a poor boy
                         Abm 
Though my story's seldom told
       Gb                      
I have squandered my resistance
Gb                        
For a pocketful of mumbles
B                
Such are promises
    Abm          
All lies and jest
Gb                E                    
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
               B       
And disregards the rest
Gb Gb7 Gb Gb7 B
■  ■   ■  ■   ■
               B                 
When I left my home and my family
              Ebm       
I was no more than a boy
B      Gb                  
In the company of strangers
       Gb                          
In the quiet of the railway station
B             
Running scared


[Chorus]
Gb         Abm             Gb     E       
Laying low seeking out the poorer quarters
                 B        
Where the ragged people go
                Gb     E               B   
Looking for the places only they would know
Abm      Ebm                 
Lielalie Lielalielielielielie
Abm      Gb7                  B              
Lielalie Lielalielielielielie lielielielielie


[Verse]
B7                                 B       Abm      
Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job
             Gb    
But I get no offers
                                         B     
Just a comeon from the whores on seventh Avenue
Abm7                    Gbsus4       E              
I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome
                    B                   
I took some comfort there lalalalalalala
Gb7 B Abm Gb Gb7 B Abm Gb
■   ■ ■   ■  ■   ■ ■   ■ 


[Solo]
E B Gb7 E B
■ ■ ■   ■ ■


[Chorus]
                              Abm
Lielalie Lielalielielielielie ■  
Ebm Abm      Gb                   Gb7             B
■   Lielalie Lielalielielielielie lielielielielie ■


[Verse]
                       B             
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
                  Abm        Gb  
And wishing I was gone going home
          Gb7           Gb             B           Ebm
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me ■  
        Abm      Gb   Gb7 B
Leading me going home ■   ■
       B                      
In the clearing stands a boxer
      Gb             Abm  
And a fighter by his trade
       Gb                   
And he carries the reminders
Gb                               
Of every glove that laid him down
B                           
Or cut him till he cried out
                     Abm7 
In his anger and his shame
     Abm          E      
I am leaving I am leaving
                      Gbsus4  Gb E
But the fighter still remains ■  ■


[Chorus]
B Abm      Ab7 Ebm                  Ab7
■ Lielalie ■   Lielalielielielielie ■  
Gb7      Abm                  Ebm             Abm
Lielalie Lielalielielielielie lielielielielie ■  
Gb                   Abm     
Lielalielielielielie Lielalie
Ebm                  Abm Gb             
Lielalielielielielie ■   lielielielielie
Abm                  Ebm     
Lielalielielielielie Lielalie
Abm                                 
Lielalielielielielie lielielielielie
Ebm                  Abm     
Lielalielielielielie Lielalie
Gb                   Abm            
Lielalielielielielie lielielielielie
Ebm                  Abm     
Lielalielielielielie Lielalie
Gb                                  
Lielalielielielielie lielielielielie
Abm                  Gb Ebm Abm Gb      
Lielalielielielielie ■  ■   ■   Lielalie
Abm                                 
Lielalielielielielie lielielielielie
Ebm Abm                  Gb Gb7     
■   Lielalielielielielie ■  Lielalie


[Outro]
B Gb Abm Gb B Abm Gb E
■ ■  ■   ■  ■ ■   ■  ■
B Gb E B
■ ■  ■ ■


[End]