Lyrics of Roughneck

born to be a roughneck i'll never amount to nothin'
Pullin' case and layin' pipe is hard labor
Well i was born in a boomer shack bout a half mile from town
Papa was a driller on a wildcat crew and my mama never was around
I learn to cuss when i was two and fight when i was three
And by the time i was five there was no kid alive could ever get the best of me
Born to be a roughneck...

Well i started workin' like a regular man when i was just about knee high
Skinning the knuckles with my two bare hands but they never heard me cry
I remember walkin' down the road and hearin' somebody say
He was born to live a rougneck's life and he's never gonna change his ways
Born to be a roughneck...
Born to be a roughneck...