Lee Dewyze – The Boxer chords

Boxer Chords by Lee Dewyze

Intro: C - picked or strummed        Capo 3

     Ce---------------------|B------1--------------|G---------- 0---------|D--------2------------|A----3----------------|E---------------------|


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


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


Chorus 1:
        Am         EmLie la lie, lie la lie lie, lie la lie,
        AmLie la lie,
        G                            CLie la lie la lie la lie la la la la lie.


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


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


Chorus 2: (Same as chorus one)


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


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

Chorus 3: (Same) Repeat 3x to end