If Your Gonna Be Dumb

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 rot gut whisky 'Til my pain was chicken fried and I've had dudes with badges frisk me 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 I walk the walk and i run my mouth Been on that short end for too long But if they gave medals for honkey-tonk wars Hell, I'd keep mine in my chest of drawers With myIRS 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