If You're Gonna Be Dumb You Gotta Be Tough

	  		

Intro:  G C D G 


G                                    C      
 If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough, 
D                                             G   
 When you get knocked down you gotta get back up, 
G                                               C                    
 I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer but I know enough to know, 
D                                     G      
 If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough. 


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


G-                                    C     
 If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough,  
D                                             G  
 When you get knocked down you gotta get back up, 
G                                 C    
 That's the way it is in life and love, 
D                                     G     
 If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough. 


G, 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, 
G                                  C 
 Well I walk the walk and I run my mouth, 
D                               G 
 Been on that short end for too long, 
G                                       C 
 Well if they get medals for honky-tonk wars, 
D                                     G 
 Hell, I'd keep mine in my chest-of-drawers, 
G                                        C 
 With my RS Bills and Divorce Papers and all that stuff, 
D                                     G     
 If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough. 


G                                    C 
 If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough,  
D                                        G 
 When you get knocked down you gotta get back up, 
G                                               C 
 I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer but I know enough to know, 
D                                     G 
 If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough. 
G                                     C 
 If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough. 

        
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