That Was Us

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Twenty dollars out of momma's purse bought us a tank of gas 
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And a pack of tobacco when, we was just teenage kids. 
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Me and Jack and Danny we'd go driving round 
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If there was trouble to be found, heh, then we found it quick. 
 
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Chuckin' donuts in the fields ?till old man Smith would call the cops 
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And he'd come running out with a shotgun ?cause we was  
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Running down his crops. 
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And I reckon he's still wonderin who that was, 
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That was us. 
 
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Some of these local boys moved on but we never changed a bit 
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Never had a scrap of sense, at least that's what some folks said. 
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Yeah we finally turned old enough to buy our own beer 
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Don't remember about that year, just lucky that we're not dead. 
 
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?Cause somebody said they saw some boys with a ute looked just like mine 
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Trying to pull down that old water tank that sits out by the railway line. 
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People wonder why it leans the way it does. 
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That was us. 
 
 
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Seems like small towns never change but things get tough when times get hard 
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And they say when he got sick, old man Smith would have lost that farm 
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?Cause he was getting way behind on all his bills 
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But someone came and brought his crops in from the fields 
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Yeah folks ?round here still don't know who that was 
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That was us. 
 
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 Cuttin' donuts in the fields ?till old man Smith would call the cops 
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And he'd come running out with a shotgun ?cause we was  
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Running down his crops. 
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Somebody said they saw some boys with a ute looked just like mine 
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Trying to pull down that old water tank that sits out by the railway line. 
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That was us 
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Yeah that was us. 
 
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