Johnny Cash Roughneck Lyrics

Roughneck Lyrics

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...