Capo fret. 2
Intro : NC
A5
I am just a poor boy
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Though my story's seldom told
E5
I have squandered my resistance
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For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises
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A5 F#5
All lies and jests
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Still a man hears what he wants to hear
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And disregards the rest hmm hmm hmm hmm
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When I left my home and my family
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I was no more than a boy
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In the company of strangers
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In the quiet of the railway station running scared
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Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
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Where the ragged people go
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Looking for the places only they would know
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Lie la lie ...
A5
Asking only workman's wages
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I come looking for a job
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But I get no offers,
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Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
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I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
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I took some comfort there la la la la.....
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F#5 E5 F#5 E5
Lie la lie ...
A5
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
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And wishing I was gone
E5
Going home
E5 A5
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
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Bleeding me, going home
A5
In the clearing stands a boxer
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And a fighter by his trade
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And he carries the reminders
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Of ev'ry glove that layed him down
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Or cut him till he cried out
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In his anger and his shame
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"I am leaving, I am leaving"
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But the fighter still remains
A5 F#5 E5 F#5 E5 (ad lib)
Lie la lie ...
Outro : A....A..F#m..E....E7....A....A..F#m..E..D....A..E..E7...A5
