C
I am just a poor boy
                           Am
Though my story's seldom told,
        G
I have squandered my resistance
       G7                              C
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises.

              Am
All lies and jest,
         G                F
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
                   C     F  G  C
And disregards the rest.

        C
When I left my home and my family
                      Am         G
I was no more than a boy in the company of strangers,
        G7                         C
In the quiet of a railway station running scared.
        Am           G              F
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
                        C
Where the ragged people go
         G              F        G      C
Looking for the places only the would know.

Am          G                      Am
Lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie,
       F            G                      C
Lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie

        C
Asking only workmans wages
                      Am                 G
I come looking for a job, but I get no offers,
        G7                   G              C
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue

         Am               G               F
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
                     C           G       F  G   C
I took some comfort there, la la la la la.

        Am          G                      Am
Lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie,
       F            G                      C
Lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie

     C
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
                   Am          G
And wishing I was gone, going home
           G7                           C
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me,

Em          Am        G     C
Bleeding me....going home.

        C
In the clearing stands the boxer
                       Am
And a fighter by his trade
       G
And he carries the reminders
    G7
Of every glove that layed him down
    C
Or cut him till he cried out
                       Am
In his anger and his shame,
      G             F
"I am leaving, I am leaving!"
                      C       G  F  G  C
But the fighter still remains.

Am          G                      Am
Lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie,
       F            G                      C
Lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie, lie la lie