If you wanna get dumb you gotta be tough

Intro
G|G|C|D|G


                 C
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough
D         G
When you get knocked down you gotta get back up

I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer
C
BUt I know enough to know
D         G
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough
       C
I lit my Brain with rot-gut whiskey
D     G
Till my pain was chicken fried
       C
And I had dudes with badges frisk me
D       G
And teach me how to swallow pride
       C 
I took advice no fool would take
D     G
I got some habits I can't shake

I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer
C
But I know enough to know
D         G
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough
         C
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough
D          G    
When you get knocked down you gotta get back up
        C
That's the way it is with life and love
D         G
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough

Break
C|D|G

G       C
I've been up and down and down and out
D        G    
I've been left and right and wrong
    C 
Well I walk the walk and run my mouth
D    G
Been on that short end for too long
     C
Well if they gave medals for honky-tonk wars
D       G
Hell I'd keep mine in my chest of drawers
      C
With my IRS bills and divorce papers and all that stuff
D       G
Hell If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough
         C
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough
D        G
When you get knocked down you gotta get back up
        
I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer
C
BUt I know enough to know
D         G
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough
D         G 
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough