That Was Us written by Tony Lane and Craig Wiseman 11/10/05 CAPO III INTRO: G C D G C D G C G Twenty dollars out of mama's purse bought us a tank of gas C G C And some Redman tobacco, when we were just teenage kids G C G Me and my old buddy LeRoy we'd go drivin' around C G If there was trouble to be found, man we dang sure did Em D C Cuttin' donuts in the fields so Old Man Smith would call the cops Em D C And he'd come runnin' out with a shotgun 'cause we were runnin' down his crops Am G C D And I reckon he's still wonderin' who that was G D But that was us G C G Now some of these local boys moved on but we never changed a bit C G C Never had a lick of sense, 'least that's what some folks said G C G Then finally we turned old enough to buy our own beer C G Don't remember much about that year, just lucky we ain't dead Em D C Now somebody said they saw some boys with a truck looked just like mine Em D C Tryin' to pull down that old watertank that sits out on the county line Am G C D And people wonder why it leans the way it does G That was us SOLO Em D C Seems like small towns never change but things get tough when times get hard Em D C They said when he got sick Old Man Smith woulda lost that farm Am G C 'Cause he was gettin' way behind on all his bills Am G C 'Til somebody brought his crops in from the fields Am G C D Yeah and folks 'round here still wonder who that was... GCD That was us INTRO out CHORDS with a CAPO on I: G = A C = D D = E Em = F#m Am = Bm CHORDS without a capo: G = Bb C = D# D = F Em = Gm Am = Cm