Mumford And Sons – The Boxer chords

Although this can be played with a Capo on 5, this version is played with NO CAPO




CI am just a poor boy
                         AmThough my story's seldom told
       GI have squandered my resistance
      G7             G6               CFor a pocket full of mumbles such are promises
             AmAll lies and jests
        G                 FStill a man hears what he wants to hear
                   C    CAnd disregards the rest

       CWhen I left my home and my family
      C       G      AmI was no more than a boy
       GIn the company of strangers
       G7           G6                  CIn the quiet of the railway station running scared
       Am           G               FLaying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
                        CWhere the ragged people go
         G             F               CLooking for the places only they would know

        AmLie-la-lie
       GLie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
       AmLie la lie
       F                               CLie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie

       CAsking only workman's wages
       C       G     AmI come looking for a job
             GBut I get no offers,
       G7               G6                CJust a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
     Am                  G                   FI do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
                    CI took some comfort there


         CThen I'm laying out my winter clothes
    C       G      AmAnd wishing I was gone
      GGoing home
          G7            G6             CWhere the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
Am                 GBleeding me, going home


Repeat chorus

During solo play the verse chord progression 

       CIn the clearing stands a boxer
      C       G      AmAnd a fighter by his trade
       GAnd he carries the reminders
   G7               G6Of ev'ry glove that layed him down
   COr cut him till he cried out
       Am            FIn his anger and his shame
      G              F"I am leaving, I am leaving"
        CBut the fighter still remains

        AmLie-la-lie
       GLie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
       AmLie la lie
       F                               AmLie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie

       GLie-la-lie la lie-la-lie
       AmLie la lie
       F                               CLie-la-lie la la la la lie la la la la lie