[00:06.210]I am just a poor boy
[00:08.320]though my story's seldom told.
[00:11.900]I have squandered my resistance
[00:14.100]for a pocketful of mumbles,
[00:16.129]such are promises.
[00:20.180]All lies and jest.
[00:21.600]Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
[00:24.590]and disregards the rest.
[00:26.870]Mmm.......
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[00:36.320]When I left my home
[00:37.610]and my family.
[00:38.980]I was no more than a boy.
[00:41.330]In the company of strangers,
[00:44.220]in the quiet of the railway station
[00:47.700]running scared.
[00:48.550]
[00:50.580]Laying low,
[00:51.800]seeking out the poorer quarters
[00:54.330]where the ragged people go.
[00:57.800]Looking for the places
[00:58.980]only they would know.
[01:02.250]Lie-la-lie.....
[01:10.600]Lie-la-lie.....
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[01:18.180]Asking only workman's wages,
[01:20.590]I come looking for a job
[01:22.800]but I get no offers.
[01:26.100]Just a come-on from the whores
[01:28.180]on Seventh Avenue.
[01:32.160]I do declare,
[01:33.450]there were times
[01:34.660]when I was so lonesome
[01:36.620]I took some comfort there.
[01:38.850]Lie-la-lie.....
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[02:11.120]Lie-la-lie.....
[02:19.150]Lie-la-lie.....
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[02:26.980]Then I'm laying out
[02:28.180]my winter clothes
[02:29.620]and wishing I was gone.
[02:31.700]Going home,
[02:34.700]where the New York City winters
[02:36.880]aren't bleeding me.
[02:40.570]Leading me
[02:44.500]going home.
[02:47.670]
[02:53.690]In the clearing stands a boxer,
[02:56.200]and a fighter by his trade.
[02:58.790]And he carries the reminders
[03:01.890]of ev'ry glove that laid him down
[03:04.800]or cut him till he cried out.
[03:06.830]In his anger and his shame,
[03:08.880]I am leaving, I am leaving.
[03:11.760]But the fighter still remains.
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