The Boxer chords by Simon & Garfunkel

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 3)

Hey folks, here's the fixed version! This song sounds best using the
E minor 7Em7 with using just your birdie finger, usually just "walking"
the base note from the C majorC down to the Am.

E minor 7Em7 x2xx0x
G+G  32000x

These are the original lyrics; I'm
a girl so singing in first person can be awkward in some companies so I've done a third-person
version as well (girl version).

Anyways, you've got a couple of picking options with this song;
I use the classic pinch Travis picking pattern pretty much all the
way through for this one. This adds a little more sound when using a
single guitar. If you're on a C majorC chord this is what the pattern looks like:
___________________
__o__________o_____
________o__________
_____o_________o___
__o_______o________
___________________ (Pinch, in-side out-side in)

Or you can use the alternating outside/inside pattern at the end of the intro:

Intro
|-3-0---0-----0---|---0-------------|-----------------|------------------||
|-----3---3-----3-|-----3---1-----1-|---1-------1-----|---1-------1------||
|-----------3-----|-0-----0---3-0---|-------0-------0-|-------0-------0--||
|-----------------|-----------------|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2----||
|-----------------|-----------------|-3---------------|-3----------------||
|-----------------|-----------------|---------3-------|---------3--------|| Repeat Outside/inside

The Boxer
Simon and Garfunkel

C majorC
I am just a poor boy
         E minor 7Em7  A minorAm
Though my story's seldom told,
    G+G
I have squandered my resistance
   G7G7                C majorC
For a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises
  E minor 7Em7   A minorAm
All lies and jests
    G+G         FF
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
          C majorC    G+G  G7G7  C majorC
And disregards the rest

    C majorC
When I left my home and my family,
       E minor 7Em7  A minorAm
I was no more than a boy
    G+G
In the company of strangers
    G7G7
In the quiet of the railway station,
C majorC
Running scared,
E minor 7Em7  A minorAm      G+G       FF
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
            G+G
Where the ragged people go
    G+G
Looking for the places
G7G7  G+G     C majorC
Only they would know

C majorC  E minor 7Em7 A minorAm     E minor 7Em7
Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie lie
    A minorAm     FF      G+G        C majorC
Lie la lie, la la Lie la la la Lie la la la lah lie

    C majorC
Asking only workman's wages
        E minor 7Em7 A minorAm
I come looking for a job,
       G+G
But I get no offers,
    G7G7
Just a come-on from the whores
      C majorC
On Seventh Avenue
 E minor 7Em7  A minorAm
I do declare,
      G+G        FF
There were times when I was so lonesome
          C majorC             G+G G7G7  C majorC
I took some comfort there, le le le le le le le

C majorC  E minor 7Em7 A minorAm     E minor 7Em7
Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie lie
    A minorAm     FF      G+G        C majorC
Lie la lie, la la Lie la la la Lie la la la lah lie

     C majorC
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
      E minor 7Em7  A minorAm
And wishing I was gone,
   G+G
Going home
     G7G7
Where the New York City winters
    C majorC
Aren't bleeding me,
E minor 7Em7   A minorAm
Leading me,
   G+G
Going home

    C majorC
In the clearing stands a boxer,
       E minor 7Em7  A minorAm
And a fighter by his trade
    G+G
And he carries the reminders
  G7G7
Of ev'ry glove that laid him down
  C majorC
Or cut him till he cried out
       E minor 7Em7   A minorAm
In his anger and his shame,
   G+G       FF
"I am leaving, I am leaving"
           C majorC        G+G G7G7 C majorC
But the fighter still remains, mmm mmm

C majorC  E minor 7Em7 A minorAm     E minor 7Em7
Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie lie
    A minorAm     FF      G+G        C majorC
Lie la lie, la la Lie la la la Lie la la la lah lie
C majorC  E minor 7Em7 A minorAm     E minor 7Em7
Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie lie
    A minorAm     FF      G+G        C majorC
Lie la lie, la la Lie la la la Lie la la la lah lie
C majorC  E minor 7Em7 A minorAm     E minor 7Em7
Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie lie
    A minorAm     FF      G+G        C majorC
Lie la lie, la la Lie la la la Lie la la la lah lie

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