Boxer Chords by Lee Dewyze

Intro: C - picked or strummed        Capo 3

     Ce---------------------| (x32010@1)B------1--------------|
G---------- 0---------|
D--------2------------|
A----3----------------|
E---------------------|


Verse 1:
CI (x32010@1)am just a poor boy
                         AmThough (x02210@1)my story's seldom told,
        GI (320003@1)have squandered my resistance
      G (320003@1)                             CFor (x32010@1)a pocket full of mumbles such are promises.
              AmAll (x02210@1)lies and jest,
         G (320003@1)              FStill (133211@1)a man hears what he wants to hear
                   C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)      C (x32010@1)
And disregards the rest.


Verse 2:
        CWhen (x32010@1)I left my home and my family
                     AmI (x02210@1)was no more than a boy
        GIn (320003@1)the company of strangers,
        G (320003@1)                       CIn (x32010@1)the quiet of a railway station running scared.
        Am (x02210@1)         G (320003@1)            FLaying (133211@1)low, seeking out the poorer quarters
                        CWhere (x32010@1)the ragged people go
         G (320003@1)            F (133211@1)            CLooking (x32010@1)for the places only the would know.


Chorus 1:
        Am (x02210@1)       EmLie (022000@1)la lie, lie la lie lie, lie la lie,
        AmLie (x02210@1)la lie,
        G (320003@1)                          CLie (x32010@1)la lie la lie la lie la la la la lie.


Verse 3:
        CAsking (x32010@1)only workmans wages
                     AmI (x02210@1)come looking for a job 
               GBut (320003@1)I get no offers,
        G (320003@1)                               CJust (x32010@1)a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue.
         Am (x02210@1)             G (320003@1)                FI (133211@1)do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
                     C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)        C (x32010@1)      
I took some comfort there, la la la


Verse 4:
	CNow (x32010@1)the years are rolling by me
		     AmThey (x02210@1)are rocking evenly,
	GAnd (320003@1)I am older than I once was
    G (320003@1)		  CAnd (x32010@1)younger than I'll be that's not unusual.
	 Am (x02210@1)      G (320003@1)   FIt (133211@1)isn't strange, after changes upon changes
		       CWe (x32010@1)are more or less the same
      G (320003@1)            F (133211@1)              CAfter (x32010@1)changes we are more or less the same.


Chorus 2: (Same as chorus one)


Verse 5:
     CThen (x32010@1)I'm laying out my winter clothes 
                  AmAnd (x02210@1)wishing I was gone,
       GGoing (320003@1)home
           F (133211@1)                         CWhere (x32010@1)the New York City winters aren't bleeding me,
Em (022000@1)           Am (x02210@1)       G (320003@1)   
  Bleeding me ____ Going home.


Verse 6:
        CIn (x32010@1)the clearing stands the boxer
                     AmAnd (x02210@1)a fighter by his trade
       GAnd (320003@1)he carries the reminders
    GOf (320003@1)Every glove that layed him down
    COr (x32010@1)cut him till he cried out     
                     AmIn (x02210@1)his anger and his shame,
      G (320003@1)           F"I (133211@1)am leaving, I am leaving!"
                      C (x32010@1)     
But the fighter still remains.
     G (320003@1)             F (133211@1)           C (x32010@1)            
I am leaving but the fighter still remains

Chorus 3: (Same) Repeat 3x to end