Biography:
Leon James "Lee" DeWyze (born April 2, 1986) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Mount Prospect, Illinois, and is the winner of the ninth season of American Idol. He has released two independent albums, So I'm Told (2007) and Slumberland (2010). He released "Live it Up" in late 2010.
Lee Dewyze attended an alternative high school but states that music and his teachers were his inspiration to go back to his studies. Before Idol, DeWyze worked as a paint salesclerk.
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Other songs:
- Blackbird Song
- Hollyridge
- A Song About Love
- Balckbird Song
- Beautiful Day
- Beautiful Like You
- Blackbirds Song
- Blackbirds Song The Walking Dead
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Dear Isabelle
- Earth Stood Still
- Falling Slowly
- Fight
- Frames
- Give Me Something
- Hallelujah
- Hey Jude
- Like I Do
- Live It Up
- Me And My Jealousy
- Me My Jealousy
- Now Youre Here
- Oil And Water
- Open Your Eyes
- Snaps
- Stay
- Stay Away
- Stay Here
- Stone
- Sweet Serendipity
- The Boxer
- Treat Her Like A Lady
- Where You Lie
- Who Wouldve Known
- Worth Waiting
- Youre Still The One
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Boxer Chords by Lee Dewyze
Intro: C - picked or strummed Capo 3
C
e---------------------|
B------1--------------|
G---------- 0---------|
D--------2------------|
A----3----------------|
E---------------------|
Verse 1:
C
I am just a poor boy
Am
Though my story's seldom told,
G
I have squandered my resistance
G C
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises.
Am
All lies and jest,
G F
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
C G C
And disregards the rest.
Verse 2:
C
When I left my home and my family
Am
I was no more than a boy
G
In the company of strangers,
G C
In the quiet of a 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 the would know.
Chorus 1:
Am Em
Lie la lie, lie la lie lie, lie la lie,
Am
Lie la lie,
G C
Lie la lie la lie la lie la la la la lie.
Verse 3:
C
Asking only workmans wages
Am
I come looking for a job
G
But I get no offers,
G 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 G C
I took some comfort there, la la la
Verse 4:
C
Now the years are rolling by me
Am
They are rocking evenly,
G
And I am older than I once was
G C
And younger than I’ll be that’s not unusual.
Am G F
It isn’t strange, after changes upon changes
C
We are more or less the same
G F C
After changes we are more or less the same.
Chorus 2: (Same as chorus one)
Verse 5:
C
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
Am
And wishing I was gone,
G
Going home
F C
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me,
Em Am G
Bleeding me ____ Going home.
Verse 6:
C
In the clearing stands the boxer
Am
And a fighter by his trade
G
And he carries the reminders
G
Of Every glove that layed him down
C
Or cut him till he cried out
Am
In his anger and his shame,
G F
"I am leaving, I am leaving!"
C
But the fighter still remains.
G F C
I am leaving but the fighter still remains
Chorus 3: (Same) Repeat 3x to end
Intro: C - picked or strummed Capo 3
C
e---------------------|
B------1--------------|
G---------- 0---------|
D--------2------------|
A----3----------------|
E---------------------|
Verse 1:
C
I am just a poor boy
Am
Though my story's seldom told,
G
I have squandered my resistance
G C
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises.
Am
All lies and jest,
G F
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
C G C
And disregards the rest.
Verse 2:
C
When I left my home and my family
Am
I was no more than a boy
G
In the company of strangers,
G C
In the quiet of a 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 the would know.
Chorus 1:
Am Em
Lie la lie, lie la lie lie, lie la lie,
Am
Lie la lie,
G C
Lie la lie la lie la lie la la la la lie.
Verse 3:
C
Asking only workmans wages
Am
I come looking for a job
G
But I get no offers,
G 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 G C
I took some comfort there, la la la
Verse 4:
C
Now the years are rolling by me
Am
They are rocking evenly,
G
And I am older than I once was
G C
And younger than I’ll be that’s not unusual.
Am G F
It isn’t strange, after changes upon changes
C
We are more or less the same
G F C
After changes we are more or less the same.
Chorus 2: (Same as chorus one)
Verse 5:
C
Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
Am
And wishing I was gone,
G
Going home
F C
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me,
Em Am G
Bleeding me ____ Going home.
Verse 6:
C
In the clearing stands the boxer
Am
And a fighter by his trade
G
And he carries the reminders
G
Of Every glove that layed him down
C
Or cut him till he cried out
Am
In his anger and his shame,
G F
"I am leaving, I am leaving!"
C
But the fighter still remains.
G F C
I am leaving but the fighter still remains
Chorus 3: (Same) Repeat 3x to end
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