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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:28:13 -0700
 From: Gene Graham 
 Subject: THE WINNER
 THE WINNER
 Recorded by Bobby Bare
 Written by Shel Silverstein
 The [C]hulk of a man with a beer in is hand
 Looked [Glike a drunk old fool
 And I knew if I hit him right
 Why I could [C]knock him off-a that stool
 But ever'body they said "Watch out,
 Hey, that's [F]Tiger Man McCool"
 He's had a [G]whole lot of fights
 And he's always come out a [C]WINNER
 
 [G]Yea!, he's A [C]WINNER.
 
 But I'd had myself about five too many
 And I walked up tall and proud
 I faced his back and I faced the fact
 That he had never stooped or bowed
 I said, "Tiger Man, you're a pussycat"
 And a hush fell on the crowd
 I said let's you and me go outside and see
 Who's A WINNER.
 
 Well, he gripped the bar with one big hairy hand
 And he braced against the wall
 He slowly looked up from his beer
 My God, that man was tall
 He said boy, I see you're a scrapper
 So just before you fall
 I'm gonna tell you just a little
 'Bout what it means to be A WINNER.
 
 He said "Now you see these bright white smiling teeth
 You know they ain't my own
 Mine rolled away like chicklets
 Down the street in San Antone
 But I left that person, cursin'
 Nursin' seven broken bones
 And he, uh, only broke, uh, three of mine
 That makes me THE WINNER."
 
 He said "Now behind this grin, I got steel pins
 That holds my jaw in place
 A trophy of my most successful
 Motorcycle race
 And each morning when I wake and touch
 This scar across my face
 It reminds me of all I got
 by being A WINNER."
 
 "Now this broken back was a dying act
 Of a handsome Harry Clay
 That sticky Cincinnati night
 I stole his wife away
 But that woman she gets uglier
 And she gets meaner every day
 But I got her, boy
 that's what makes me A [C]WINNER.....Change to ...[D]
 
 [D]He said "You gotta speak loud when you challenge me son
 'Cause it's [A]hard for me to hear
 With this twisted neck and these migrane pains
 And this [D]big old cauliflower ear
 And if it wasn't for this glass eye of mine
 Why, I'd [G]shed a happy tear
 To [A]think of all you're gonna get
 By being A [D]WINNER."
 
 I got ar-th-rit-ic elbows, son
 I got dislocated knees
 From pickin' fights with thunderstorms
 And chargin' into trees
 And my nose's been broke so often
 I might lose it if I sneeze
 And son, you say you
 still wanna be A WINNER."
 
 "Now you remind me a lot of my younger days
 With your knuckles a-clenchin' white
 But boy, I'm gonna sit right here
 And sip this beer all night
 And if there's somethin' that you gotta gain or prove
 by winnin' some silly fight
 Well, OK, I quit, I lose
 You're THE WINNER."
 
 Oh, I stumbled from that barroom
 Not so tall and not so proud
 And behind me I still hear
 the hoots and laughter of the crowd
 But my eyes still see and my nose still works
 And my teeth are still in my mouth
 And you know, I guess that
 Makes me THE WINNER.
 
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 |  Submitted by:                        Gene Graham     |
 |  ah827@rgfn.epcc.edu                  El Paso, Texas  |
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