Intro 
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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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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