ROUGHNECK KEY: E CHORUS: A E Born to be a roughneck I'll never amount to nothing E B7 E Pulling case and laying pipe is hard labor VERSE: E Well I was born in a boomer shack about a half a mile from town E F# B7 Papa was driller on a wildcat crew and mama never was around E I learned to cuss when I was two and fight when I was three E B7 E And by the time I was five there was no kid alive could ever get the best of me CHORUS: Born to be a roughneck I'll never amount to nothing Pulling case and laying pipe is hard labor BREAK: A E B7 E VERSE: Well I started working like a regular man when I was just about knee high Skinning the knuckles on my two bare hands but they never heard me cry I remember walking down the road and hearing somebody say He was born to live a roughneck's life and he's never gonna change his ways CHORUS: Born to be a roughneck I'll never amount to nothing Pulling case and laying pipe is hard labor CHORUS: Born to be a roughneck I'll never amount to nothing Pulling case and laying pipe is hard labor