The Boxer

(capo 2ª casa)

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I am just a poor boy, though my 
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story's seldom told.
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I have squandered my resistance,
For a pocketful of mumbles, such are
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 promises.
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All lies and jest.
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Still a man hears what he wants to
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 hear and disregards the rest.

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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, 
runnin' scared.
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Laying low, seeking out the poorer 
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quarters,
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Where the ragged people go.
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Lookin' for the places, only they
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 would know.

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Lie-la-lie Lie-la-lie-la-la-la-lie
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Lie-la-lie 
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Lie-le-lie-la-lie-la-la-la-la-la-lie

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Asking only workman's wages I come 
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lookin' for a job,
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But I get no offers,
Just a come-on from the whores on 
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Seventh Avenue.
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I do declare there were times when
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 I was so lonesome,
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I took some comfort there la, la, 
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la, la, la, la, la, la, la

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Then I'm laying out my winter 
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clothes and wishing I was gone,
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Going home, where the New York City
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 winters aren't bleedin' me.
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Bleadin' me, to goin' home.

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In the clearing stands a boxer and
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 a fighter by his trade,
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And he carries the reminders of 
every glove that laid him down,
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Or cut him 'til he cried out in his
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 anger and his shame,
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"I am leaving, I am leaving."
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But the fighter still remains.