Chords to The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel

Verse 1

CI am just a poor boy

Though my story’s Em7seldom Amtold

I have Gsquandered my resistance

For a G7pocketful of mumbles

Such are Cpromises

All Em7lies and Amjest

Still a Gman hears what he Fwants to hear

And disregards the Crest     G  G7  C

Verse 2

When I Cleft my home and my family

I was no more Em7than a Amboy

In the Gcompany of strangers

In the G7quiet of the railway station

CRunning scared

Em7Laying Amlow, seeking Gout the poorer Fquarters

Where the ragged people Cgo

Looking Gfor the places G7only Gthey would Cknow

Chorus

CLie-Em7la - Amlie, lie-la-Em7lie-lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-la-Amlie, lie-la-Flie-lie-lie-lie-lie, Glie-lie-lie-lie-Clie

Verse 3

Asking Conly workman’s wages, I come looking Em7for a Amjob

But I get no Goffers

Just a G7come-on from the whores on 7th CAvenue

I Em7do  deAmclare, there were times when I was Fso lonesome

I took some comfort Cthere, la-la-la-la-la-la-la G G7  C

Chorus

CLie-Em7la - Amlie, lie-la-Em7lie-lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-la-Amlie, lie-la-Flie-lie-lie-lie-lie, Glie-lie-lie-lie-Clie

ver4

Then I’m Claying out my winter clothes

And wishing Em7I was Amgone, going Ghome

Where the G7New York City winters aren’t Cbleeding me

Em7Leading Amme, going Ghome

Verse 5

In the Cclearing stands a boxer

And a fighter Em7by his Amtrade

And he Gcarries the reminders

Of G7every glove that laid him down

Or Ccut him till he cried out

In his anger Em7and his Amshame

“I am Gleaving, I am Fleaving”

But the fighter still Cremains   G G7 C

Chorus

CLie-Em7la - Amlie, lie-la-Em7lie-lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-la-Amlie, lie-la-Flie-lie-lie-lie-lie, Glie-lie-lie-lie-lie

AmLie, Lie-la-Em7lie-lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-la-Amlie, lie-la-Flie-lie-lie-lie-lie, Glie-lie-lie-lie-lie

AmLie, lie-la-Em7lie-lie-lie-lie-lie

Lie-la-Amlie, lie-la-Flie-lie-lie-lie-lie, Glie-lie-lie-lie-Clie