If Pride In Your Victory

You gave it your best but you did not win But to try and to fail should never be a sin And though it's not a good feeling to know of defeat Do keep it in mind that the best can be beat. The winner can have the big smile on his or her face But it takes a brave person for to lose with grace And congratulate the winner and with a smile say well done You were better than me and you deservedly won. 'Tis easy to be a winner and smile in victory But it takes a special person to lose with dignity And not to become the bad sport of the day By trying to take from the winner in any sort of a way. The winners are honoured in song, story and rhyme And their names do live on through the decades of time But if pride in your victory gives way to self conceit Then here's to the one dignified in defeat.