Twenty dollars out of mumma's purse bought us a tank of gas
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And a pack of tobacco when we were just teenage kids
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Me and Jack and Danny we'd go driving around
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If there was trouble to be found then we found it quick
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Chuckin' doughnuts in the field
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'Till old man Smith would call the cops
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He'd come running out with a shotgun
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'Cause we were running down his crops
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And I reckon he's still wondering who that was
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But that was us
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Now some of those local boys moved on but we never changed a bit
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Never had a scrap of sense, least that's what some folks said
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Then we finally turned old enough to buy our own beer
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Don't remember much about that year, just lucky that we're not dead
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'Cause somebody said they saw some boys
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With a ute looked just like mine
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Trying to pull down that old water tank
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That sits out by the railway line
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And people wonder why it leans the way it does
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Well that was us
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Seems like small towns never change
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But things get tough when times get hard
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And they said when he got sick
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That 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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'Till someone came and brought his crops in from the fields
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Yeah and folks 'round here still don't know who that was
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That was us
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Chuckin' doughnuts in the fields
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'Till old man Smith would call the cops
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He'd come running out with a shotgun
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'Cause we were running down his crops
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Somebody said they saw some boys
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With a ute looked just like mine
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Trying to pull down that old water tank
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That sits out by the railway line
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That was us
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That was us
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That Was Us
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Adam Brand |