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Roughneck

Johnny Cash

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Roughneck

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Born to be a roughneck I'll never amount to nothin'Pullin' case and layin' pipe is hard laborWell I was born in a boomer shack bout a half mile from townPapa was a driller on a wildcat crew and my mama never was aroundI learn to cuss when I was two and fight when I was threeAnd by the time I was five there was no kid alive could ever get the best of meBorn to be a roughneck...[ banjo ]Well I started workin' like a regular man when I was just about knee highSkinning the knuckles with my two bare hands but they never heard me cryI remember walkin' down the road and hearin' somebody sayHe was born to live a rougneck's life and he's never gonna change his waysBorn to be a roughneck...Born to be a roughneck...

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