The Who - Pinball Wizard 1969

　私事ですが、大学時代はピンボール・マシンが大好きでした。夕食を食べた後にまた学校に戻る前にちょっと気分転換にやったりしていました。ゲーセンなどない時代でビリヤード場や卓球場の片隅にあったりしました。達人の域だったかもしれません。フーもドラムスのキースム－ンがなくなって急に下降してしまったように思います。

Ever since I was a young boy
I've played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton
I must have played them all
But I ain't seen nothing like him
In any amusement hall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball

He stands like a statue
Becomes part of the machine
Feeling all the bumpers
Always playing clean
He plays by intuition
The digit counters fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball

He's a pinball wizard
There's got to be a twist
A pinball wizard
He's got such a supple wrist

How do you think he does it?
(I don't know)
What makes him so good?

He ain't got no distractions
Can't hear those buzzers and bells
Don't see lights a flashin'
Plays by sense of smell
Always gets a replay
Never tilts at all
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball

I thought I was
The Bally table king
But I just handed
My pinball crown to him

Even on my usual table
He can beat my best
His disciples lead him in
And he just does the rest
He's got crazy flipper fingers
Never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball!

bumper/tilt/flipper = pinball machineの基本用語です。熱中するあまりマシンをゆするとtiltでgame overです。