《The Winner》歌词

歌曲： The Winner

所属专辑：The Essential Bobby Bare

歌手： Bobby Bare

时长： 05:20

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The Winner (Live) - Bobby Bare[00:00:00]

Written by：Shel Silverstein[00:00:01]

The hulk of a man with a beer in his hand[00:00:07]

He looked like a drunk old fool[00:00:11]

And I knew if I hit him right[00:00:15]

Why I could knock him off of that stool[00:00:18]

But everybody they said watch out hey[00:00:22]

That's the Tiger Man McCool[00:00:26]

He's had the whole lotta fights[00:00:30]

And he's always come out winner yeah[00:00:32]

He's a winner[00:00:35]

But I had myself about five too many[00:00:37]

And I walked up tall and proud[00:00:41]

I faced his back and I faced the fact[00:00:45]

That he had never stooped or bowed[00:00:48]

I said Tiger Man you're a pussycat[00:00:52]

And a hush fell on the crowd[00:00:56]

I said let's you and me go outside[00:00:59]

And see who's the winner[00:01:02]

Well he gripped the bar with one big hairy hand[00:01:06]

Then he braced against the wall[00:01:10]

He slowly looked up from his beer[00:01:14]

My God that man was tall[00:01:18]

He said boy I see you're a scrapper[00:01:22]

So just before you fall[00:01:26]

I'm gonna tell you just a little about[00:01:29]

What it means to be a winner[00:01:32]

He said now you see these bright[00:01:35]

White smiling teeth you know they ain't my own[00:01:38]

Mine rolled away like Chicklets[00:01:44]

Down the street in San Antone[00:01:47]

But I left that person cursing[00:01:51]

Nursing seven broken bones[00:01:54]

And he only broke ah three of mine[00:01:58]

That makes me the winner[00:02:03]

He said now behind this grin I got a steel pin[00:02:05]

That holds my jaw in place[00:02:10]

A trophy of my most successful motorcycle race[00:02:13]

And each morning when I wake[00:02:20]

And touch this scar across my face[00:02:23]

It reminds me of all I got by bein' a winner[00:02:28]

Now this broken back was[00:02:35]

The dying act of a handsome Harry Clay[00:02:38]

That sticky Cincinnati night I stole his wife away[00:02:43]

But that woman she gets uglier[00:02:50]

And she gets meaner every day[00:02:54]

But I got her boy[00:02:57]

That's what makes me a winner[00:03:00]

He said you gotta speak loud[00:03:08]

When you challenge me son cause[00:03:11]

It's hard for me to hear[00:03:13]

With this twisted neck[00:03:16]

And these migraine pains[00:03:18]

And this big ole cauliflower ear[00:03:20]

And if it wouldn't for this glass eye of mine[00:03:23]

Why I'd she'd a happy tear[00:03:27]

To think of all that[00:03:31]

You gonna get by being a winner[00:03:32]

I got arthritic elbows boy[00:03:38]

I got dislocated knees[00:03:42]

From picking fights with thunderstorms[00:03:46]

And charging into trees[00:03:49]

And my nose been broke so often[00:03:53]

I might lose if I sneeze[00:03:57]

And son you say[00:04:01]

You still wanna be a winner[00:04:02]

Now you remind me a lotta[00:04:07]

My younger days with your knuckles[00:04:10]

A clenching white[00:04:13]

But boy I'm gonna sit right here[00:04:15]

And sip this beer all night[00:04:19]

And if there's something that you gotta gain[00:04:22]

To prove by winning some silly fight[00:04:25]

Well okay I quit I lose you're the winner[00:04:30]

So I stumbled from that barroom not so tall[00:04:37]

And not so proud[00:04:42]

And behind me[00:04:45]

I still hear the hoots of laughter of the crowd[00:04:46]

But my eyes still see and my nose still works[00:04:52]

And my teeth're still in my mouth[00:04:56]

And you know[00:04:59]

I guess that makes me the winner[00:05:01]