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The Boxer Chords

(ver. 3)
Mumford And Sons
C
I am just a poor boy
           C       E     Am
Though my story's seldom told
       G
I have squandered my resistance
      G7              F               C
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises
C     E       Am
All lies and jests
        G                 F
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
                   C    C
And disregards the rest

       C
When I left my home and my family
      C       E     Am
I was no more than a boy
       G
In the company of strangers
       G7            F                C           C     
In the quiet of the railway station running scared
E      Am           G               F
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
                        C
Where the ragged people go
         G             F               C
Looking for the places only they would know

        Am
Lie-la-lie
       G
Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
       Am
Lie la lie
       F               G               C
Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie

       C
Asking only workman's wages
       C       E     Am
I come looking for a job
             G
But I get no offers,
       G7               F                 C
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
C  E   Am                  G                   F
 I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
                    C
I took some comfort there


         C
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
    C       E      Am
And wishing I was gone
      G
Going home
          G7            F              C          C
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
E        A          G
Bleeding me, going home


C
La   laaa
C   E   Am
La  la  laa  
G
Ahhh
C
La   laaa
C   E   Am
La  la  laa  
G
Ahhh
F        C
Laa la la la

C
C  E  Am
G
G7 F  C
C E Am            
G  F  C
G  F  C

       C
In the clearing stands a boxer
      C       G      Am
And a fighter by his trade
       G
And he carries the reminders
   G7               F
Of ev'ry glove that layed him down
   C
Or cut him till he cried out
       Am            F
In his anger and his shame
      G              F
"I am leaving, I am leaving"
        C
But the fighter still remains

        Am
Lie-la-lie
       G
Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
       Am
Lie la lie
       F               G               Am
Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie

        Am
Lie-la-lie
       G
Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
       Am
Lie la lie
       F               G               Am
Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie

       G
Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie

       Am
Lie la lie
       F               G               C
Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie


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