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
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 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