If Your Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough

If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough

When you get knocked down, you gotta get back up

I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I know enough, to know

If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough

I lit my brain with rotgut whiskey

'Til my pain was chicken fried

And I had dudes with badges frisk me

And teach me how to swallow pride

I took advice no fool would take

I got some habits I can't shake

I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I know enough to know

If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough

If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough

When you get knocked down, you gotta get back up

That's the way it is in life and love

If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough

I've been up and down and down and out

I've been left and right and wrong

Well, I walked the walk and I ran my mouth

I've been on the short end for too long

But if they gave medals for honky-tonk wars

Hell, I'd keep mine in my chest of drawers

With my IRS bills and divorce papers and all that stuff

If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough

If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough

When you get knocked down, you gotta get back up

I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I know enough to know

If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough

If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough