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...   [ banjo ]   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...