The Winner-Bobby Bare

[ti:The Winner] [ar:Bobby Bare] [al:The Essential Bobby Bare] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Winner - Bobby Bare [00:03.86]Written by：Shel Silverstein [00:07.73]The hulk of a man with a beer in his hand [00:11.04] [00:11.68]He looked like a drunk old fool [00:13.89] [00:15.50]And I knew if I hit him right [00:18.67]Why I could knock him off of that stool [00:21.42] [00:22.83]But everybody they said watch out hey [00:26.72]That's the Tiger Man McCool [00:28.71] [00:30.00]He's had the whole lotta fights [00:32.08]And he's always come out winner yeah [00:35.77]He's a winner [00:36.57] [00:37.47]But I had myself about five too many [00:41.39]And I walked up tall and proud [00:43.64] [00:45.10]I faced his back and I faced the fact [00:48.46]That he had never stooped or bowed [00:51.23] [00:52.02]I said Tiger Man you're a pussycat [00:55.44] [00:56.06]And a hush fell on the crowd [00:58.67] [00:59.48]I said let's you and me go outside [01:02.62]And see who's the winner [01:04.38] [01:06.70]Well he gripped the bar with one big hairy hand [01:10.89]Then he braced against the wall [01:13.46] [01:14.77]He slowly looked up from his beer [01:18.26]My God that man was tall [01:20.98] [01:22.04]He said boy I see you're a scrapper [01:24.81] [01:26.07]So just before you fall [01:28.39] [01:29.18]I'm gonna tell you just a little about [01:32.56]What it means to be a winner [01:34.48] [01:35.99]He said now you see these bright [01:38.64]White smiling teeth you know they ain't my own [01:43.46] [01:44.28]Mine rolled away like Chicklets [01:47.59]Down the street in San Antone [01:50.54] [01:51.47]But I left that person cursing [01:54.92]Nursing seven broken bones [01:58.25] [01:58.87]And he only broke ah three of mine [02:02.56] [02:03.43]That makes me the winner [02:04.60] [02:05.74]He said now behind this grin I got a steel pin [02:10.38]That holds my jaw in place [02:12.87] [02:13.97]A trophy of my most successful motorcycle race [02:20.17] [02:20.96]And each morning when I wake [02:23.99]And touch this scar across my face [02:27.90] [02:28.71]It reminds me of all I got by bein' a winner [02:33.14] [02:35.43]Now this broken back was [02:38.06]The dying act of a handsome Harry Clay [02:42.52] [02:43.42]That sticky Cincinnati night I stole his wife away [02:49.66] [02:50.57]But that woman she gets uglier [02:54.15]And she gets meaner every day [02:56.66] [02:57.96]But I got her boy [02:59.65] [03:00.30]That's what makes me a winner [03:02.66] [03:08.66]He said you gotta speak loud [03:11.19]When you challenge me son cause [03:13.92]It's hard for me to hear [03:15.55] [03:16.45]With this twisted neck [03:18.36]And these migraine pains [03:20.35]And this big ole cauliflower ear [03:23.00] [03:23.80]And if it wouldn't for this glass eye of mine [03:26.80] [03:27.73]Why I'd she'd a happy tear [03:30.13] [03:31.63]To think of all that [03:32.88]You gonna get by being a winner [03:36.29] [03:38.33]I got arthritic elbows boy [03:42.66]I got dislocated knees [03:45.36] [03:46.22]From picking fights with thunderstorms [03:49.97]And charging into trees [03:52.70] [03:53.39]And my nose been broke so often [03:56.47] [03:57.10]I might lose if I sneeze [04:00.04] [04:01.16]And son you say [04:02.97]You still wanna be a winner [04:05.52] [04:07.74]Now you remind me a lotta [04:10.10]My younger days with your knuckles [04:13.70]A clenching white [04:14.75] [04:15.98]But boy I'm gonna sit right here [04:19.37]And sip this beer all night [04:21.73] [04:22.76]And if there's something that you gotta gain [04:25.79]To prove by winning some silly fight [04:29.18] [04:30.32]Well okay I quit I lose you're the winner [04:35.18] [04:37.15]So I stumbled from that barroom not so tall [04:42.47]And not so proud [04:44.03] [04:45.16]And behind me [04:46.48]I still hear the hoots of laughter of the crowd [04:51.52] [04:52.46]But my eyes still see and my nose still works [04:56.19]And my teeth're still in my mouth [04:58.78] [04:59.73]And you know [05:00.64] [05:01.37]I guess that makes me the winner