The Boxer Lyrics

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I am just a poor boy ...
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squandered my resistance f...
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promises.- ...
- hears what he wants to ....
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____________________ hmm...
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hmm._________________
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left my home and my family I was ...
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com-pany of strangers, in ...
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runnin' scared.____________ ...
the poorer quarters ...
the places on- ly ...
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lie la lie__ ...
lie la lie____ lie ...
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lie. Asking
on-
Asking only ...
I come ...
but I get ...
just a come on ...
I do ...
there were times ...
I took some ...
La la la la ...
Instrumental verse
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And I'm laying out_ ...
gone, ...
where the New York City ...
leading me, ...
In the ...
er and a fight- er by ...
ers of every glove ...
cried out in his anger ...
leaving but the fight- er ...
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Lie la lie.___
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