Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

 If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough

When you get knocked down you gotta get back up

I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer

BUt I know enough to know

If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough

 I lit my Brain with rot-gut whiskey

Till my pain was chicken fried

 And I had dudes with badges frisk me

And teach me how to swallow pride

 I took advice no fool would take

I got some habits I can't shake

I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer

But I know enough to know

If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough

 If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough

When you get knocked down you gotta get back up

 That's the way it is with life and love

If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough

Break

I've been up and down and down and out

I've been left and right and wrong

 Well I walk the walk and run my mouth

Been on that short end for too long

 Well if they gave medals for honky-tonk wars

Hell I'd keep mine in my chest of drawers

 With my IRS bills and divorce papers and all that stuff

Hell If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough

 If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough

When you get knocked down you gotta get back up

I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer

BUt I know enough to know

If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough

If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough