Capo fret. 2

Intro : NC

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I am just a poor boy

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Though my story's seldom told

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I have squandered my resistance

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For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises

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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 ...

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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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Lie la lie ...

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Then I'm laying out my winter clothes

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And wishing I was gone

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Going home

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Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me

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Bleeding me,              going home

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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

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Lie la lie ...

Outro : A....A/G#..F#m..E....E7....A....A/G#..F#m..E..D....A..E..E7...A