Twenty dollars out of momma's purse 

Bought us a tank of gas some Redman tobacco 

When we were just teenage kids 

Me and my old buddy Johnny we'd go riding around 

If there was trouble to be found 

But man we dang sure did


Cutting donuts in the fields 

Till old man Smith would call the cops 

He'd come running out with a shotgun 

Cause we were running down his crops 

And I reckon he's still wondering who that was 

Well that was us


Now some of these local boys moved on 

But we never changed a bit 

Don't guess we had enough sense 

Least that's what folks said, 

Then we finally turned old enough to buy our own beer 

Don't remember much about that year

But lucky we ain't dead 

Cause somebody said they saw some boys with a truck looked just like mine 

Tryin' to pull down that old water tank 

Sits out by the county line 

And people wonder why it leans the way it does 

Well that was us


Seems like small towns never change 

But things 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 gettin way behind on all his bills 

Till someone came and brought his crops in from the fields 

Yeah, folks round here still don't know who that was 

But that was us 

Yeah that was us 

Come out with a shotgun cause we were running down his crops 

That was us 

Somebody says they saw boys with a truck looked just like mine 

That was us 

Tryin' to pull down that old water tank sits out on the county line 

That was us