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...