The Winner-Bobby Bare

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