Intro:
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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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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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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 were 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.
