(intro) G  C  D

                                         C  D
If your gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough
                                              G
When you get knocked down you gotta get back up,
                                            C                      D
I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer but I know enough, to know,
                                        G
If your gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough
                                  C  D
I lit my brain with Rot-Gut whiskey
                                  G
'Till all my pain was chicken fried
                            C       D
And I had dudes with badges frisk me
                            G
Teach me how to swallow pride

                      C          D
I took advice no fool would take
                               G
I got some habits I can't shake
                                         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

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

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

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