If Your Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough Chords by Roger Alan Wade

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_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[C] If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. _ _ _
[D] When you get knocked down, you gotta get [G] back up. _ _
I ain't the sharpest knife in the [C] drawer,
but I know enough to know.
[D] If you're gonna be dumb, [G] you gotta be tough. _ _
_ I lit my brain with rot [C] gut whiskey
till _ [D] _ my pain was chicken [G] fry. _ _
_ And I had dudes with [C] badges frisk me _
_ [D] and teach me how to [G] swallow pride. _
_ I took advice no [C] fool would take. _
_ [D] I got some habits I [G] can't shake. _
_ I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer,
[C] but I know enough to know.
[D] If you're gonna be dumb, you [G] gotta be tough. _
_ [C] If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. _
_ [D] When you get knocked down, you gotta [G] get back up. _
_ That's the way it is in [C] life and love. _
_ [D] If you're gonna be dumb, you [G] gotta be tough. _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ I've been up and down and [C] down and out. _ _
_ [D] _ I've been left and [G] right and wrong. _
_ Well, I walk the walk and I [C] run my mouth. _
_ [D] Been on that short end [G] for too long. _
_ But if they gave medals for [C] honky-tonk wars, _
_ [D] hell, I'd keep mine in my [G] chest of drawers
with my IRS bills and [C] divorce papers and all that stuff.
_ [D] If you're gonna be dumb, you [G] gotta be tough. _
_ If you're gonna be [Fm] dumb, you [C] gotta be tough. _
_ [D] When you get knocked down, you gotta get [G] back up. _
I ain't the sharpest knife in the [C] drawer,
but I know enough to [D] know.
If you're gonna be dumb, you [G] gotta be tough. _
_ [D] If you're gonna be dumb, you [C] gotta be tough. _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Shoo!
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