Mesut Seyhanlı                        Simon & Garfunkel
mesuts@sim.net.tr

           THE BOXER
C           /                  /            Am
I am just a poor boy though my story seldom told,
       G               /              G7           G6
I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles,
         C         /      /
Such are promises
             Am
All lies and jest,
        G                 F                 /              C
Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest
G      /      |G7   G6   |  C    /    /    
       Humm .  .  .  .

       C                   /             /              Am
When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy,
       G          /                G7         G6
In the company of strangers in the quiet of a railway station
C               /      /
Running scared
       Am           G              F                  /             C
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go,
        G             |G7   G6        |C       /
Looking for the places only they would know.

       Am     /         G             /           Am      /
Lie-la-lie,      lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie, lie-la-lie
       G                 F             C
Lie-la-lie la la la la lie-la-la la la lie

C                     /            /             Am
Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job,
             G       /
But I get no offers,
       G7               G6                C       /     /
Just a come-on from the whores of Seventh Avenue
        Am               G            F          C
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
G            G7 G6   C
I took some comfort there,

Ooo - la - la  la  la  la  la.


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.

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