Bob Dylan - Boxer guitar tab

The Boxer

Paul Simon

Recorded by Bob Dylan, in a duet between "raucous HWY61"-Dylan and "mellifluous Nashville Skyline"-Dylan, for Self Portrait (1970)

Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem

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C

I'm just a poor boy

Am

Though my story's seldom told

G

I have squandered my resistance

F

For a pocketful of mumbles

C

Such are promises

Am

All lies and jest

G F

Still a man hears What he wants to hear

C

And disregard the rest.

G C

La-la la, la-la la-la la-la la.

When I left my home and family

I was no more than a boy

In the company of strangers

In the quiet of the railway station

Running scared

Laying low

Seeking out the poorer quarters

Where the ragged people go

Lookin for the places

Only they would know.

Am

Lay-la lay

G

Lay-la lay-lay lay-la lay

Am

Lay-la lay

F G C

Lay-la lay-lay lay-la lay-lay lay-la lay.

Askin only workman's wages

I come lookin for a job

But I get no offers

Just a come on from the whores

On seventh avenue

I do declare

There were times when I was so lonesome

I took some comfort there.

Then I'm laying out my winter clothes

And wishing I was gone

Going on

Where the New York city winters

Aren't bleeding me

Am

Leading me

G

Going home.

In the clearing stands a boxer

And a fighter by his trade

And he carries the reminders

Of every glove that laid him down

And cut him till he cried out

In his anger and his shame

"I'm leaving, I am leaving"

But the fighter still remains