If you gonna be dumb,you got to be tough
when you get knock down,you gonna get back up.
I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer but I know enough to know.
If you gonna be dumb,you got to be tough.
I lit my brain with rot gut whiskey
till my pain was chicken fried.
I had dudes with badges frisk me
teach me how to swallow pride.
I took advice no fool would take.
I got some habits I could not shake.
I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer but I know enough to know.
If you gonna be dumb,you got to be tough.
If you gonna be dumb,you got to be tough.
when you get knock down,you gonna get back up.
That's the way it is in life and love
If you gonna be dumb,you got to be tough
I 've been up and down and down and out
I have been left and right and wrong
It will walk the walk and run my mouth
And on the short end for too long
But if they gave metals for honky tonk wars
I'd spend mine on beers and horses
With my IRS bills and divorce papers and all that stuff
If you gonna be dumb,you got to be tough
If you gonna be dumb,you got to be tough
when you get knock down,you gonna get back up.
I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer but I know enough to know.
If you gonna be dumb,you got to be tough