Sentient Cement Coverpile - Simon & Garfunkel

The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel

C                                                        B9(-20030) Am
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told
           G
I have squandered my resistance
          G               G7                        C
For a pocketful of mumbles such are promises
     B9       Am            G                         F                          C                G
All lies and jest still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest
f e-d C
            C                                                         B9     Am
When I left my home and family I was no more than a boy
         G                                        G            G7                  C
In the company of strangers in the quiet of a railway station running scared
C B9 Am           G                   F                                                  C
Laying low seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go
         G                       G7                    C
Looking for the places only they would know
        Am                  Em                     Am             G            F           G   C
Lie-la-lie . . Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie Lie la lie . . Lie-la-lie la la la lie la la la la lie

            C                                                      B9    Am
Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job
                   G                    G7                                                    C
But I get no offers, just a come-on from the whores on seventh avenue
  B9      Am                  G                         F
I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome
   F                           C              G           G7 e d C
I took some comfort there La la la la la la

        Am                  Em                    Am             G            F           G   C
Lie-la-lie . . Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie . . Lie la lie . . Lie-la-lie la la la lie la la la la lie

C                                                                        B9      Am
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone
       G                   G7                                    C
Going home where quiet city streetlights aren't bleeding me
C    B9 Am        G        G7 e d C
Leading me going Home

       C                                                     B9     Am            G
In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade and he carries the reminders
   G7                                             C
Of ev'ry glove that laid him down or cut him 'till he cried out
         C      B9        Am             G                  F                                       C
In his anger and his shame, I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains

G G G7 e d C

        Am                  Em                    Am             G            F           G   C
Lie-la-lie . . Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie . . Lie la lie . . Lie-la-lie la la la lie la la la la lie

-------------------------------

JC Setlist || Tunelist