She’s Always a Winner to Me (1990)
Sung to Billy Joel’s She’s Always a Woman to Me (1976)
I wrote and performed this for the wedding of my former girlfriend, Dr. Jane Rosen, a chiropractor, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Wedding of Jane Rosen, 1989 or 1990, in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). Left to right: Jane, Paul Stregevsky, Brad Lasker (holding his infant son).
First, the Billy Joel video, from the song’s earliest live performance, the year before its release:
My performance was accompanied by a handful of props, including an actual menu borrowed from The Waverley (her favorite brunch site) and a license plate borrowed from her Chrysler ragtop convertible, DR JANE.
My lyric features one of my parody repertoire’s five most virtuoso lines:
“And the most she will do is take X-rays of you but she’s Winner-Take-Always to me.”
She’s Always a Winner to Me (Lyrics)
(Paul needs to find the lyrics in his filing cabinet.)