That Was Us

Intro: CFG CFG C F C Twenty dollars out of momma's purse bought us a tank of gas F G And a pack of tobacco when, we was just teenage kids. C F C Me and Jack and Danny we'd go driving round F C If there was trouble to be found, heh, then we found it quick. Am G C Cuttin' donuts in the fields till old man Smith would call the cops Am G And he'd come running out with a shotgun cause we was C Running down his crops. Dm Em G And I reckon he's still wonderin who that was, N/C C F G That was us. C F C Some of these local boys moved on but we never changed a bit F G Never had a scrap of sense, at least that's what some folks said. C F C Yeah we finally turned old enough to buy our own beer F C Don't remember about that year, just lucky that were not dead. Am G C Cause somebody said they saw some boys with a ute looked just like mine Am G C Trying to pull down that old water tank that sits out by the railway line. Dm Em G People wonder why it leans the way it does. N/C C F G That was us. Am G C Seems like small towns never change but things get tough when times get hard Am G C And they say when he got sick, old man Smith would have lost that farm Am G C Cause he was getting way behind on all his bills Am G C But someone came and brought his crops in from the fields Dm Em G Yeah folks round here still don't know who that was N/C C F G C F G That was us. Am G C Cuttin' donuts in the fields till old man Smith would call the cops Am G And he'd come running out with a shotgun cause we was C Running down his crops. Am G C Somebody said they saw some boys with a ute looked just like mine Am G C Trying to pull down that old water tank that sits out by the railway line. G That was us G Yeah that was us.