Simon & Garfunkel - The boxer
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The Boxer
Simon and Garfunkel
Hey folks, here's the fixed version! This song sounds best using the
Em7 with using just your birdie finger, usually just "walking"
the base note from the C down to the Am.
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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 chord this is what the pattern looks like:
e|-------------------|
B|--o----------o-----|
G|--------o----------|
D|-----o---------o---|
A|--o-------o--------|
E|-------------------| (Pinch, in-side out-side in)
Or you can use the alternating outside/inside pattern at the end of the intro:
[Intro]
e|-3-0---0-----0---|---0-------------|-----------------|------------------||
B|-----3---3-----3-|-----3---1-----1-|---1-------1-----|---1-------1------||
G|-----------3-----|-0-----0---3-0---|-------0-------0-|-------0-------0--||
D|-----------------|-----------------|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2----||
A|-----------------|-----------------|-3---------------|-3----------------||
E|-----------------|-----------------|---------3-------|---------3--------|| Repeat Outside/inside
[Verse 1]
CI am just a poor boy
Though my story's Em7seldom Amtold,
I have Gsquandered my resistance
For a G7pocket full of mumbles, such are Cpromises
All Em7lies and Amjests
Still a Gman hears what he Fwants to hear
And disregards the Crest G G7 C
[Verse 2]
When I Cleft my home and my family,
I was no more Em7than a Amboy
In the Gcompany of strangers
In the G7quiet of the railway station,
CRunning scared,
Em7Laying Amlow, seeking Gout the poorer Fquarters
Where the ragged people Cgo
Looking Gfor the places
G7Only Gthey would Cknow
[Hook]
CLie Em7la Amlie, lie la Em7la la la lie lie
Lie la Amlie, la la FLie la la la GLie la la la lah Clie
[Verse 3]
Asking Conly workman's wages
I come looking fEm7or a Amjob,
But I get no Goffers,
Just a G7come-on from the whores
On Seventh CAvenue
I Em7do deAmclare,
There were Gtimes when I was Fso lonesome
I took some comfort Cthere, le le le le le le leG G7 C
[Chorus]
CLie Em7la Amlie, lie la Em7la la la lie lie
Lie la Amlie, la la FLie la la la GLie la la la lah Clie
[Verse 4]
Then I'm Claying out my winter clothes
And wishing Em7I was Amgone,
Going Ghome
Where the G7New York City winters
Aren't Cbleeding me,
Em7Leading Amme,
Going Ghome
[Verse 5]
In the Cclearing stands a boxer,
And a fighter Em7by his Amtrade
And he Gcarries the reminders
Of G7ev'ry glove that laid him down
Or Ccut him till he cried out
In his anger Em7and his Amshame,
"I am Gleaving, I am Fleaving"
But the fighter still Cremains, mmm mmm G G7 C
[Outro]
CLie Em7la Amlie, lie la Em7la la la lie lie
Lie la Amlie, la la FLie la la la GLie la la la lah
AmLie, lie la Em7la la la lie lie
Lie la Amlie, la la FLie la la la GLie la la la lah
AmLie, lie la Em7la la la lie lie
Lie la Amlie, la la FLie la la la GLie la la la lah Clie