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    This relates to song lyrics - "I'm only a poor boy with a story thats rarely told". What's my sport and what is the song title?

    Question #55857. Asked by malcy. (Mar 11 05 1:50 PM)


    solarbears

    		Boxing - The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel

    Mar 11 05, 1:53 PM
    MrsAce

    		Lyric is a little off:

    The Boxer

    I am just a poor boy.
    Though my story's seldom told,
    I have squandered my resistance
    For a pocketful of mumbles,
    Such are promises
    All lies and jest
    Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
    And disregards the rest.


    Mar 11 05, 2:07 PM
    lothruin

    		I never took it that the person speaking in the first person in that song was actually a boxer, since the boxer is described in the third person in the last verse. I'm not sure it is made clear WHAT profession the person singing the song is in, though Simon often wrote more or less about himself.

    Mar 11 05, 4:16 PM
    lothruin

    		Aha. Here it is:

    http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:44cn6cJvBjIJ:www.ckk.chalmers.se/guitar/the.boxer.html+%22the+boxer%22+simon+written+about&hl=en

    Down towards the bottom, you'll see the song is not written about a boxer, but about an outsider. A boy who leaves home to find his fortune. Simon admits the song is autobiographical, even if he didn't mean it that way when he wrote it.

    So, the "I" in "I am just a poor boy" doesn't neccessarily have a sport. We don't know what he does, but he is probably a singer.

    Mar 11 05, 4:20 PM
    mochyn

    		nice voice mrs ace

    Mar 11 05, 4:27 PM
    MrsAce

    		Thanx Mochyn...without even lip synching!

    Mar 11 05, 5:23 PM
    malcy

    		Thanks - I'll go for boxing.

    Mar 12 05, 12:17 PM
    lothruin

    		Whatever you like. Still, the person speaking in that song is not a boxer. There IS a boxer IN the song. But the profession of the person speaking from the first person isn't boxing.

    Mar 12 05, 2:05 PM

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