Johnny Cash — Roughneck

[Chorus] Born to be a roughneck I'll never amount to nothing Pulling case and laying pipe Is hard labor [Verse 1] Well, I was born in a boomer shack About 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 [Chorus] [Verse 2] Well, I started working 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 walking down the road And hearing somebody say He was born to live a rougneck's life And he's never going to change his ways [Chorus] [x2]