The Winner-Bobby Bare

[ti:The Winner] [ar:Bobby Bare] [al:Vintage: Bobby Bare] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Winner (赢家) - Bobby Bare (Bobby Bare) [00:07.48]The hulk of a man with a beer in his hand [00:12.06]He looked like a drunk old fool [00:13.96] [00:16.06]And I knew if I hit him right [00:18.36] [00:19.29]Why I could knock him off of that stool [00:21.71] [00:23.76]But everybody they said watch out hey [00:26.99] [00:27.55]That's the Tiger Man McCool [00:29.55] [00:30.91]He's had the whole lotta fights [00:32.81] [00:33.34]And he's always come out winner yeah [00:35.59] [00:36.79]He's a winner [00:37.57] [00:38.67]But I had myself about five too many [00:42.21] [00:42.87]And I walked up tall and proud [00:44.89] [00:46.85]I faced his back and I faced the fact [00:49.75] [00:50.30]That he had never stooped or bowed [00:52.43] [00:54.14]I said Tiger Man you're a pussycat [00:57.22] [00:58.33]And a hush fell on the crowd [01:00.60] [01:01.81]I said let's you and me go outside [01:04.31] [01:05.02]And see who's the winner [01:06.67] [01:09.22]Well he gripped the bar with one big hairy hand [01:13.20] [01:13.98]Then he braced against the wall [01:16.05] [01:17.59]He slowly looked up from his beer [01:20.67] [01:21.36]My God that man was tall [01:23.83] [01:25.02]He said boy I see you're a scrapper [01:27.94] [01:29.13]So just before you fall [01:31.46] [01:32.90]I'm gonna tell you just a little bout [01:35.63]What it means to be a winner [01:37.98] [01:40.25]He said now you see these bright [01:43.20]White smiling teeth you know they ain't my own [01:46.81] [01:48.47]Mine rolled away like Chicklets [01:50.91] [01:52.01]Down the street in San Antone [01:54.06] [01:55.99]But I left that person cursing [01:58.59] [01:59.35]Nursing seven broken bones [02:02.43] [02:03.79]And he only broke ah three of mine [02:07.47]That makes me the winner [02:08.72] [02:10.96]He said now behind this grin I got a steel pin [02:14.89] [02:15.80]That holds my jaw in place [02:17.53] [02:19.49]A trophy of my most successful motorcycle race [02:26.14] [02:27.19]And each morning when I wake [02:29.29] [02:30.03]And touch this scar across my face [02:32.87] [02:34.65]It reminds me of all I got by bein' a winner [02:38.82] [02:41.94]Now this broken back was [02:44.71]The dying act of a handsome Harry Clay [02:48.72] [02:50.18]That sticky Cincinnati night I stole his wife away [02:56.00] [02:57.81]But that woman she gets uglier [03:00.42] [03:01.66]And she gets meaner every day [03:04.24] [03:05.69]But I got her boy [03:07.70]That's what makes me a winner [03:10.54] [03:16.71]He said you gotta speak loud [03:18.63] [03:19.26]When you challenge me son cause [03:21.69]It's hard for me to hear [03:23.51] [03:24.77]With this twisted neck [03:26.08]And these migraine pains [03:28.75]And this big ole cauliflower ear [03:31.10] [03:32.47]And if it wadn't for this glass eye of mine [03:35.87] [03:36.83]Why I'd she'd a happy tear [03:38.78] [03:40.17]To think of all that [03:42.50]You gonna get by being a winner [03:44.94] [03:47.44]I got arthritic elbows boy [03:52.17]I got dislocated knees [03:54.35] [03:55.76]From picking fights with thunderstorms [03:58.26] [03:59.48]And charging into trees [04:01.33] [04:03.32]And my nose been broke so often [04:06.00] [04:06.88]I might lose if I sneeze [04:09.71] [04:10.97]And son you say [04:12.74] [04:13.66]You still wanna be a winner [04:15.54] [04:18.02]Now you remind me a lotta [04:20.72]My younger days with your knuckles [04:23.24] [04:23.85]A clenching white [04:24.65] [04:26.66]But boy I'm gonna sit right here [04:29.43] [04:29.95]And sip this beer all night [04:31.93] [04:34.46]And if there's something that you gotta gain [04:37.17]To prove by winning some silly fight [04:39.95] [04:41.63]Well okay I quit I lose you're the winner [04:46.85] [04:48.81]So I stumbled from that barroom not so tall [04:54.71]And not so proud [04:55.70] [04:57.01]And behind me [04:58.27]I still hear the hoots of laughter of the crowd [05:02.92] [05:04.62]But my eyes still see and my nose still works [05:08.23] [05:08.92]And my teeth're still in my mouth [05:11.02] [05:12.25]And you know [05:13.01] [05:13.61]I guess that makes me the winner