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Introduction:
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Twenty dollars out of mama's purse bought us a tank of gas
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And some red man tobacco when we was just teenage kids
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Yeah me and my ole' buddy Leroy we'd go driving around
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If there was trouble to be found, man we dang sure did
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Cuttin' donuts in the field 'till old man Smith would call the cops
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And he'd come running out with a shotgun 'cause we was running down his
crops
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I reckon he still wonders who that was
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That was us
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Some of those local boys moved on but we never changed a bit
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Don't guess we had enough 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 much about that year, lucky we ain't dead
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'Cause somebody said they saw some boys with a truck looked just like mine
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Trying to pull down that old water tank sits out on the county 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 thing get tough when times get hard
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And they said when he got sick 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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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 field 'till old man Smith would call the cops
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And he'd come running out with a shotgun 'cause we was running down his
crops
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Somebody said they saw some boys with a truck looked just like mine
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Trying to pull down that old water tank sits out on the county line
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That was us
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Yeah that was us