The Boxer chords by Mumford & Sons

Tuning: Standard EBGDAE

Difficulty: Novice

G
I am just a poor boy
                 G/F#  Em
Though my story's seldom told
     D
I have squandered my resistance
   C                          G
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises
  G/F#   Em
All lies and jests
    D               C
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
            C/B  G
And disregards the rest

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

Chorus:
    Em
Lie-la-lie
    D
Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
    Em
Lie la lie
    C          D      G
Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie

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

     G
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
          G/F# Em
And wishing I was gone
     D
Going home
        C                        G
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
   G/F# Em     D
Bleeding me, going home

Repeat the Chorus (He sings it a little bit different but it's
difficult to distinguish la's and lie's)

During solo play the verse chord progression

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

    Em
Lie-la-lie
    D
Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
    Em
Lie la lie
    C          D      Em
Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie

    Em
Lie-la-lie
    D
Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
    Em
Lie la lie
    C          D      Em
Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie

    D
Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
    Em
Lie la lie
    C          D      G