ROUGHNECK
Album: Blood, Sweat and Tears

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