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MMC-No.: 4149 
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The Boxer
Simon & Garfunkel


I am just a poor boy
Through my story's seldom told,
I have squandered my resistance for a pocket ful of mumbles,
Such are promises.
All lies an jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear.
And disregards the rest.
When

I left my home and my family,
I was no more than a boy in the company of strangers
In the quiet of a railway station runing scared,
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged peoble go,
Looking for the places only they would know.
Lielalie, lielalie la liela la
Lielalie la la la la lielalie
Liela la la la la lie.
Asking only workman's wages
I come looking for a job, but I ge no offers,
Just a come on from the whores on Seventh Avenue.
A do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there.
Ooolala lala la la.
Lielalie, lielalie la liela la
Lielalie la la la la lielalie
Liela la la la la lie.
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, going home
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me,
Leading me, going home.
In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade,
And he carries the reminders of ev'ry glove that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame,
"I am leaving, I am leaving."
But the fighter still remains.
Lielalie, liela
Lielalie, lielalie la liela la
Lielalie la la la la lielalie
Liela la la la la lie.
lielalie la liela la
Lielalie la la la la lielalie
Liela la la
Lielalie, lielalie la liela la
Lielalie la la la la lielalie
Liela la la
Lielalie, lielalie la liela la
Lielalie la la la la lielalie
Liela la la
Lielalie, lielalie la liela la
Lielalie la la la la lielalie
Liela la la la la lie.
lielalie la liela la
Lielalie la la la la lielalie
Liela la la
Lielalie, lielalie la liela la
Lielalie la la la la lielalie
Liela la la
Lielalie, lielalie la liela la
Lielalie la la la la lielalie
Liela la la
Lielalie, lielalie la liela la
Lielalie la la la la lielalie
Liela la la lielalie