Capo fret. 2
Intro : NC
A
I am just a poor boy
A A/G# F#m
Though my story's seldom told
E
I have squandered my resistance
E7 A
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises
...
A/G# F#m
All lies and jests
E D
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
A E E7 A
And disregards the rest hmm hmm hmm hmm
A
When I left my home and my family
A/G# F#m
I was no more than a boy
E
In the company of strangers
E E7 A
In the quiet of the railway station running scared
A/G# F#m E D
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
A
Where the ragged people go
E E7 A
Looking for the places only they would know
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Lie la lie ...
A
Asking only workman's wages
A/G# F#m
I come looking for a job
E
But I get no offers,
E7 A
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
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A/G# F#m E D
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
A E E7 A
I took some comfort there la la la la.....
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F#m E F#m E
Lie la lie ...
A
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
A A/G# F#m
And wishing I was gone
E
Going home
E7 A
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
E F#m E E7 A
Bleeding me, going home
A
In the clearing stands a boxer
A F/G# F#m
And a fighter by his trade
E
And he carries the reminders
E7
Of ev'ry glove that layed him down
A
Or cut him till he cried out
A A/G# F#m
In his anger and his shame
E D
"I am leaving, I am leaving"
D A E E7 A
But the fighter still remains
A F#m E F#m E (ad lib)
Lie la lie ...
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