The Winner-Bobby Bare

[ti:The Winner] [ar:Bobby Bare] [al:The Winner] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Winner - Bobby Bare (Bobby Bare) [00:07.42]The hulk of a man with a beer in his hand [00:11.81]He looked like a drunk old fool [00:14.38] [00:15.78]And I knew if I hit him right why [00:19.20]I could knock him off of that stool [00:22.59] [00:23.62]But everybody they said watch out [00:26.85]Hey that's the Tiger Man McCool [00:29.76] [00:30.70]He's had the whole lotta fights and [00:33.43]He's always come out winner yeah he's a winner [00:37.77] [00:38.61]But I had myself about five too many [00:42.76]So I walked up tall and proud [00:45.25] [00:46.62]I faced his back and I faced the fact [00:50.04]That he had never stooped or bowed [00:53.20] [00:54.05]I said Tiger Man you're a pussycat and [00:58.38]A hush fell on the crowd [01:00.82] [01:01.75]I said let's you and me go outside [01:04.88]And see who's the winner [01:06.75] [01:09.24]Well he gripped the bar with one big [01:12.35]Hairy hand then he braced against the wall [01:16.23] [01:17.52]He slowly looked up from his beer [01:21.04]My God that man was tall [01:23.92] [01:24.87]He said boy I see you're a scrapper [01:28.25] [01:28.80]So just before you fall [01:31.85] [01:32.69]I'm gonna tell you just a little bout [01:35.06]What it means to be a winner [01:37.87] [01:40.12]He said now you see these bright white [01:42.80]Smilin' teeth you know they ain't my own [01:47.16] [01:48.37]Mine rolled away like Chicklets down [01:52.25]The street in San Antone [01:54.95] [01:55.92]But I left that person cursin' nursin' [01:59.99] [02:00.58]Seven broken bones [02:02.48] [02:03.52]And he only broke ah three of mine [02:06.71] [02:07.29]That makes me the winner [02:09.05] [02:10.91]He said now behind this grin I got a [02:14.12]Steel pin that holds my jaw in place [02:18.01] [02:19.27]A trophy of my most successful motorcycle race [02:25.70] [02:26.75]And each morning when I wake and [02:29.91]Touch this scar across my face [02:33.37] [02:34.38]It reminds me of all I got by bein' a winner [02:39.57] [02:41.85]Now this broken back was the dyin' [02:46.15]Act of a handsome Harry Clay [02:48.86] [02:50.01]That sticky Cincinnati night I stole his wife away [02:56.59] [02:57.59]But that woman she gets uglier and [03:01.56]She gets meaner every day [03:04.54] [03:05.37]But I got her boy that's [03:07.82] [03:08.35]What makes me a winner [03:10.57] [03:16.51]He said you gotta speak loud [03:18.95]When you challenge me son cause [03:21.13]It's hard for me to hear [03:23.44] [03:24.59]With this twisted neck and these migraine [03:28.02]Pains and this big ole cauliflower ear [03:31.58] [03:32.31]And if it wadn't for this glass eye of mine [03:36.56]Why I'd shed a happy tear [03:38.91] [03:40.14]To think of all that you gonna [03:42.96]Get by bein' a winner [03:44.90] [03:47.15]I got arthritic elbows boy [03:51.52]I got dislocated knees [03:54.76] [03:55.54]From pickin' fights with thunderstorms [03:59.17]And chargin' into trees [04:01.93] [04:02.96]And my nose been broke so often [04:05.87] [04:06.71]I might lose it if I sneeze [04:09.78] [04:10.71]And son you say you still wanna be a winner [04:15.62] [04:17.79]Now you remind me a lotta my younger days [04:22.12]With your knuckles a clenchin' white [04:24.86] [04:26.57]But boy I'm gonna sit right here [04:29.77]And sip this beer all night [04:32.43] [04:33.72]And if there's somethin' that you gotta [04:35.88]Gain to prove by winnin' some silly fight [04:40.14] [04:41.39]Well okay I quit I lose you're the winner [04:46.20] [04:48.46]So I stumbled from that barroom not [04:52.70]So tall and not so proud [04:55.62] [04:56.67]And behind me I still hear the hoots [05:00.54]Of laughter of the crowd [05:03.31] [05:04.37]But my eyes still see and my nose still works [05:08.45]And my teeth're still in my mouth [05:11.08] [05:11.68]And you know I guess that [05:14.39]Makes me the winner