Simon And Garfunkel - The Boxer,

Intro:  
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Verse 1: 
 
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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 jest, 
          
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Still a man hears what he wants to hear 
                    
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And disregards the rest. 
 
Verse 2: 
         
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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 a 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 the would know. 
 
Chorus 1: 
         
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Lie la lie, lie la lie lie, lie la lie, 
         
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Lie la lie, 
         
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Lie la lie la lie la lie la la la la lie. 

Verse 3: 
         
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Asking only workmans 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 la. 
 
Bridge: 
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Chorus 2: (Same as chorus one) 

Verse 4: 
      
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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. 

Verse 5: 
         
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In the clearing stands the 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 Every 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. 
 
Chorus 3: (Same) Repeat X8 

Outro: 
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