Bobby Bare - The winner
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CThe hulk of a man with a beer in is hand
GLooked like a drunk old fool
And I knew if I hit him right
Why I couldC knock him off-a that stool
But ever'body they said Watch out,
Hey, that'sF Tiger Man McCool
He's had aG whole lot of fights
And he's always come out a Cwinner
GYea!, he's aC winner.
CBut I'd had myself about five too many
GAnd I walked up tall and proud
I faced his back and I faced the fact
That he had nCever stooped or bowed
I said, Tiger Man, you're a pussycat
And a hFush fell on the crowd
I said let's Gyou and me go outside and see
Who's a wCinner.
CWell, he gripped the bar with one big hairy hand
GAnd he braced against the wall
He slowly looked up from his beer
My GCod, that man was tall
He said boy, I see you're a scrapper
So just before you fFall
I'm gonna Gtell you just a little
'Bout what it means to be a Cwinner.
CHe said Now you see these bright white smiling teeth
GYou know they ain't my own
Mine rolled away like chiclets
Down the Cstreet in San Antone
But I left that person, cursin'
Nursin' seven broken bonFes
And he, uh, only broke, uh, Gthree of mine
That makes me the Cwinner.
CHe said Now behind this grin, I got steel pins
GThat holds my jaw in place
A trophy of my most successful
MotCorcycle race
And each morning when I wake and touch
This sFcar across my face
It reGminds me of all I got
by being a Cwinner.
CNow this broken back was a dying act
GOf a handsome Harry Clay
That sticky Cincinnati night
I stCole his wife away
But that woman she gets uglier
And she gets mFeaner every day
But I Ggot her, boy
that's what makes me a wCinner
Change to ...D
DHe said You gotta speak loud when you challenge me son
'Cause it'sA hard for me to hear
With this twisted neck and these migrane pains
And this Dbig old cauliflower ear
And if it wasn't for this glass eye of mine
Why, I'd Gshed a happy tear
To Athink of all you're gonna get
By being aD winner.
DI got ar-th-rit-ic elbows, son
I got diAslocated knees
From pickin' fights with thunderstorms
And cDhargin' into trees
And my nose's been broke so often
I might Glose it if I sneeze
And sAon, you say you
still wanna be a Dwinner.
DNow you remind me a lot of my younger days
With your knAuckles a-clenchin' white
But boy, I'm gonna sit right here
And sDip this beer all night
And if there's somethin' that you gotta gain or prove
by wGinnin' some silly fight
Well, AOK, I quit, I lose
You're the wDinner.
DOh, I stumbled from that barroom
Not so Atall and not so proud
And behind me I still hear
the hoDots and laughter of the crowd
But my eyes still see and my nose still works
And my Gteeth are still in my mouth
And you Aknow, I guess that
Makes me the Dwinner.