The Boxer Chords
The Boxer by Mumford And Sons is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Am, G, G7, G6 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C
I am just a poor boy
Am
Though my story's seldom told
G
I have squandered my resistance
G7 G6 C
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises
Am
All lies and jests
G F
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
C C
And disregards the rest
C
When I left my home and my family
C G Am
I was no more than a boy
G
In the company of strangers
G7 G6 C
In the quiet of the railway station running scared
Am G F
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
C
Where the ragged people go
G F C
Looking for the places only they would know
Am
Lie-la-lie
G
Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
Am
Lie la lie
F C
Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie
C
Asking only workman's wages
C G Am
I come looking for a job
G
But I get no offers,
G7 G6 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
I took some comfort there
C
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
C G Am
And wishing I was gone
G
Going home
G7 G6 C
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
Am G
Bleeding me, going home
Repeat chorus
During solo play the verse chord progression
C
In the clearing stands a boxer
C G Am
And a fighter by his trade
G
And he carries the reminders
G7 G6
Of ev'ry glove that layed him down
C
Or cut him till he cried out
Am F
In his anger and his shame
G F
"I am leaving, I am leaving"
C
But the fighter still remains
Am
Lie-la-lie
G
Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
Am
Lie la lie
F Am
Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie
G
Lie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
Am
Lie la lie
F C
Lie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie