That Was Us

Intro Twenty dollars out of mama's purse bought us a tank of gas And some red man tobacco when we was just teenage kids Yeah me and my ole' buddy Leroy we'd go driving around If there was trouble to be found, man we dang sure did Cuttin' donuts in the field 'till old man Smith would call the cops And he'd come running out with a shotgun 'cause we was running down his crops I reckon he still wonders who that was That was us Some of those local boys moved on but we never changed a bit Don't guess we had enough sense, at least that's what some folks said Yeah we finally turned old enough to buy our own beer Don't remember much about that year, lucky we ain't dead 'Cause somebody said they saw some boys with a truck looked just like mine Trying to pull down that old water tank sits out on the county line People wonder why it leans the way it does That was us Seems like small towns never change but thing get tough when times get hard And they said when he got sick that old man Smith would have lost that farm 'Cause he was getting way behind on all his bills But someone came and brought his crops in from the fields Yeah folks 'round here still don't know who that was That was us Cuttin' donuts in the field 'till old man Smith would call the cops And he'd come running out with a shotgun 'cause we was running down his crops Somebody said they saw some boys with a truck looked just like mine Trying to pull down that old water tank sits out on the county line That was us Yeah that was us