The Winner-Kris Kristofferson

[ti:The Winner] [ar:Kris Kristofferson] [al:Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute To The Songs Of Shel Silverstein] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Winner (赢家) - Kris Kristofferson (克里斯·克里斯托佛森) [00:06.37]Well the hulk of a man with a beer in his hand [00:10.12]Looked like a drunk old fool [00:12.18] [00:13.59]And I knew that if I hit him right [00:15.92]I could knock him off that stool [00:18.46] [00:19.93]But everybody said "Watch out that's Tiger Man McCool [00:24.55] [00:26.11]He's had a whole lot of fights [00:27.89]He always come out the winner [00:29.88] [00:32.25]But I'd had myself about five too many [00:35.67]And I walked up tall and proud [00:37.85] [00:39.23]I faced his back and I faced the fact that he'd never stooped or bowed [00:44.13] [00:45.37]I said "Tiger Man you're a pussycat " and a hush fell on the crowd [00:50.87] [00:51.63]I said "Let's you and me go outside and see who's the winner" [00:55.72] [00:57.90]Well he gripped the bar with one big hairy hand and he braced against the wall [01:03.31] [01:04.88]He slowly looked up from his beer [01:07.44] [01:08.08]My God that man was tall [01:09.89] [01:10.89]He said "Boy I see you're a scrapper so just before you fall [01:16.16] [01:17.27]I'm gonna tell you just a little what a means to be a winner " [01:20.83] [01:23.11]He said "You see these bright white smiling teeth you know they ain't my own [01:29.35] [01:30.12]Mine rolled away like Chiclets down a street in San Antone [01:35.32] [01:36.58]But I left that person cursing nursing seven broken bones [01:41.98] [01:42.79]And he only broke three of mine so I am the winner [01:46.83] [01:48.79]He said "Behind his grin I got a steel pin that holds my jaw in place [01:54.77] [01:56.09]A trophy of my most successful motorcycle race [02:01.01] [02:01.96]And every morning when I wake and touch this scar across my face [02:07.49] [02:08.40]It reminds me of all I got by being a winner [02:12.41] [02:14.61]Now my broken back was the dying act of handsome Harry Clay [02:20.09] [02:21.49]That sticky Cincinnatti night I stole his wife away [02:26.17] [02:27.71]But that woman she gets uglier and meaner every day [02:32.51] [02:33.79]But I got her boy and that's what makes me a winner [02:38.14] [02:43.44]I got arthuritic elbows boy I got dislocated knees [02:48.86] [02:50.06]From picking fights with thunderstorms and charging into trees [02:55.78] [02:56.62]And my nose been broke so often I might lose it if I sneeze [03:01.65] [03:03.27]Son you say you still wanna be a winner [03:06.60] [03:09.67]You gotta speak loud when you challenge me son 'cause it's hard for me to hear [03:14.98] [03:15.52]With this twisted neck and these migraine pains and this cauliflower ear [03:20.72] [03:21.96]'N' if it weren't for this glass eye of mine I'd shed a happy tear [03:26.27] [03:28.42]To think of all you'll get by being a winner [03:31.66] [03:34.58]Now as I kick in your family jewels you see my left leg drags [03:39.86] [03:40.95]This jacket's kinda padded up where my right shoulder sags [03:46.00] [03:47.53]And there's a special part of me I keep in this paper bag [03:52.05] [03:53.37]And I'll show it to you if you want to see all of the winner [03:57.28] [03:59.32]Now you remind me a lot of my younger days with your knuckles clenching white [04:04.85] [04:06.47]Boy I'm gonna sit right here and sip this beer all night [04:11.32] [04:12.60]There's something let you gotta prove by winning some silly fight [04:17.86] [04:19.04]OK I quit I lose son you're the winner [04:22.52] [04:24.53]So I stumbled from that barroom not so tall and not so proud [04:30.37] [04:31.58]And behind me I could hear the hoots of laughter from the crowd [04:36.17] [04:37.52]But my eyes still see and my nose still works and my teeth are still in my mouth [04:42.54] [04:43.91]And you know I guess that makes me a winner