Key: B (B harp in 1st position)
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I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told
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I have squandered my resistance
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For a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises
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All lies and jest
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Still the man hears what he wants to hear
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And disregards the rest
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(Humming)
When I left my home and my family…
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Lie la lie
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Lie la lie la lie la lie
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Lie la lie
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Lie la LA la lie la lie la la la la lie
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Asking only workman's wages
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I come looking for a job
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But I get no offers
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Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
I do declare…
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Then I'm laying out my winter clothes & wishing I was gone
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Going home
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Where the New York City winters are-n't bleeding me
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Leading me-ee, going home
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In the clearing stands a boxer
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And a fighter by his trade
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And he carries the reminders
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Of ev'ry glove that laid him down
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Or cut him till he cried out
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In his anger and his shame
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I am leaving, I am leaving
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But the fighter still remains
Lie la lie…
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