The Winner - Bobby Bare

[00:00.0]The Winner - Bobby Bare (Bobby Bare)
[00:07.67]The hulk of a man with a beer in
[00:10.42]Is hand looked like a drunk old fool
[00:15.46]And I knew if I hit him right
[00:18.5]Why I could knock him off a that stool
[00:22.84]But everybody they said Watch out
[00:26.47]Hey that's Tiger Man McCool
[00:29.77]He's had a whole lot of fights and he's
[00:32.67]Always come out a winner
[00:35.37]Yeah he's a winner
[00:37.41]But I'd had myself about five too
[00:40.4]Many and I walked up tall and proud
[00:45.07]I faced his back and I faced the
[00:47.76]Fact that he had never stooped or bowed
[00:52.02]I said Tiger Man you're a pussycat
[00:55.96]And a hush fell on the crowd
[00:59.39]I said let's you and me go
[01:01.52]Outside and see who's a winner
[01:06.56]Well he gripped the bar with one big
[01:09.83]Hairy hand and he braced against the wall
[01:14.770004]He slowly looked up from his
[01:17.38]Beer my God that man was tall
[01:22.04]He said boy I see you're a
[01:24.18]Scrapper so just before you fall
[01:29.06]I'm gonna tell you just a little about
[01:32.229996]What it means to be a winner
[01:35.93]He said Now you see these bright
[01:38.44]White smiling teeth you know
[01:41.520004]They ain't my own
[01:44.18]Mine rolled away like Chiclets
[01:47.509995]Down the street in San Antone
[01:51.369995]But I left that person
[01:53.55]Cursing nursing seven broken bones
[01:58.69]And he uh only broke uh
[02:01.28]Three of mine that makes me the winner
[02:05.71]He said Now behind this grin
[02:08.39]I got steel pins that
[02:10.51]Holds my jaw in place
[02:13.91]A trophy of my most
[02:16.53]Successful motorcycle race
[02:20.9]And each morning when
[02:22.56]I wake and touch this
[02:25.32]Scar across my face
[02:28.62]It reminds me of all
[02:30.62]I got by being a winner
[02:35.31]Now this broken back was a
[02:37.98]Dying act of a handsome Harry Clay
[02:43.32]That sticky Cincinnati night
[02:46.22]I stole his wife away
[02:50.45999]But that woman she get's uglier
[02:53.64]And she get's meaner every day
[02:57.79001]But I got her boy that's
[03:00.52]What makes me a winner
[03:08.55]He said You gotta speak loud
[03:10.69]When you challenge me son
[03:12.99]'Cause it's hard for me to hear
[03:16.33]With this twisted neck and these
[03:18.66]Migraine pains and this
[03:21.11]Big old cauliflower ear
[03:23.78]And if it wasn't for this glass
[03:25.79001]Eye of mine why I'd shed a happy tear
[03:31.52]To think of all you're
[03:33.22]Gonna get by being a winner
[03:38.24]I got arthritic elbows
[03:41.56]Boy I got dislocated knees
[03:46.16]From picking fights with
[03:48.20999]Thunderstorms and charging into trees
[03:53.27]And my nose's been broke so often
[03:56.97]I might lose it if I sneeze
[04:01.17]And son you say you
[04:03.34]Still wanna be a winner
[04:07.57]Now you remind me a lot of
[04:10.07]My younger days with your
[04:12.36]Knuckles a clenching white
[04:15.86]But boy I'm gonna sit right
[04:18.49]Here and sip this beer all night
[04:22.68]And if there's something that
[04:24.45]You gotta gain or prove
[04:26.6]By winning some silly fight
[04:30.24]Well okay I quit
[04:32.54]I lose you're the winner
[04:37.21]Oh I stumbled from that
[04:39.54]Barroom not so tall and not so proud
[04:45.07]And behind me I still hear
[04:47.53]The hoots and laughter of the crowd
[04:52.34]But my eyes still see and
[04:54.35]My nose still works and
[04:56.33002]My teeth are still in my mouth
[04:59.6]And you know
[05:01.25]I guess that makes me the winner