C5 A5 I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told G5 I have squandered my resistance C5 For a pocketful of mumbles such are promises A5 G5 F5 All lies and jest still a man hears what he wants to hear C5 G5 C5 And disregards the rest A5 When I left my home and family I was no more than a boy G5 In the company of strangers D5 C5 In the quiet of a railway station running scared A5 G5 F5 Laying low seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go G5 F5 E5 D5 C5 Looking for the places only they would know A5 Lie-la-lie G5 Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie A5 Lie la lie G5 F5 G5 C5 Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie A5 Asking only workmans wages I come looking for a job G5 But I get no offers D5 C5 Just a come-on from the whores on seventh avenue A5 D5 G5 F5 C5 I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there G5 C5 Ooo-la-la la la la la A5 Lie-la-lie G5 Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie A5 Lie la lie G5 F5 G5 C5 Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie C5 Then I'm laying out my winter clothes G5 C5 A5 And wishing I was gone G5 D5 G5 G5 C5 Going home where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me A5 Leading me G5 Going Home C5 A5 In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade G5 And he carries the reminders G5 C5 D5 G5 C5 Of ev'ry glove that laid him down or cut him 'till he cried out A5 In his anger and his shame G5 F5 C5 "I am Leaving, I am Leaving." But the Fighter still remains G5 C5 G5 F5 C5 A5 Lie-la-lie G5 Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie A5 Lie la lie G5 F5 A5 Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie Repeat & Fade
