28 April 2016

Seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged peoople go

We’ll start the morning with The Boxer, performed by Simon and Garfunkle on David Letterman’s show in, I think, the 1980s, their voices slightly roughened by age. This version contains a verse (Now the years are rolling by me…) not in the version on the Bridge Over Troubled Waters album. Notable for both its melody and lyrics, The Boxer contains a haunting description of poverty, Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go, looking for the places only they would know.