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 in life and love
D                                     G
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough

[C, D, 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 I run my mouth
D                              G
Been on the short end for too long
                                   C
Well if they gave medals for honky-tonk fucking wars
D                                G
Hell I'd keep mine in a chest of drawers
                              C
With my IRS bills and divorce papers and all that stuff
D                                    G
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough

[EVERBODY]
                                     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                                    C
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough

One more time
                                     G
If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough