Boxer Lyrics

Boxer lyrics

I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told



I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles



Such are promises all lies and jest



Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest







When I left home and my family



I was no more than a boy in the company of strangers



In the quiet of the railway station running scared laying low



Seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go



Looking for the places only they would know



Lai la lai la la lai...







Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job but I get no offers



Just a come on from the whores on Seventh Avenue



I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort
there



[ banjo ]



Now 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



[ guitar ]



Lai la lai la la lai...







In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade



And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down



And cut him till he cried out in his danger and his shame



I am leaving I am leaving but the fighter still remains



Lai la lai la la lai...