Intro: C - picked or strummed        Capo 3

     C5
e--------------------- | 
B------1-------------- | 
G---------- 0--------- | 
D--------2------------ | 
A----3---------------- | 
E--------------------- | 


Verse 1:
C5
I am just a poor boy
                         A5
Though my story's seldom told,
        G5
I have squandered my resistance
      G5                               C5
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises.
              A5
All lies and jest,
         G5                F5
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
                   C5    G5        C5  
And disregards the rest.


Verse 2:
        C5
When I left my home and my family
                     A5
I was no more than a boy
        G5
In the company of strangers,
        G5                         C5
In the quiet of a railway station running scared.
        A5           G5              F5
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
                        C5
Where the ragged people go
         G5              F5              C5
Looking for the places only the would know.


Chorus 1:
        A5         E5
Lie la lie, lie la lie lie, lie la lie,
        A5
Lie la lie,
        G5                            C5
Lie la lie la lie la lie la la la la lie.


Verse 3:
        C5
Asking only workmans wages
                     A5
I come looking for a job 
               G5
But I get no offers,
        G5                                 C5
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue.
         A5               G5                  F5
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
                     C5           G5          C5        
I took some comfort there, la la la


Verse 4:
      C5
Now the years are rolling by me
                 A5
They are rocking evenly,
      G5
And I am older than I once was
    G5                          C5
And younger than I’ll be that’s not unusual.
       A5             G5               F5
It isn’t strange, after changes upon changes
                   C5
We are more or less the same
      G5              F5                C5
After changes we are more or less the same.


Chorus 2: (Same as chorus one)


Verse 5:
     C5
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes 
                  A5
And wishing I was gone,
       G5
Going home
           F5                           C5
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me,
E5             A5         G5     
  Bleeding me ____ Going home.


Verse 6:
        C5
In the clearing stands the boxer
                     A5
And a fighter by his trade
       G5
And he carries the reminders
    G5
Of Every glove that layed him down
    C5
Or cut him till he cried out     
                     A5
In his anger and his shame,
      G5             F5
"I am leaving, I am leaving!"
                      C5       
But the fighter still remains.
     G5               F5             C5              
I am leaving but the fighter still remains

Chorus 3: (Same) Repeat 3x to end