These Are My People-Big Band Country

[ti:These Are My People] [ar:Big Band Country] [al:U.S.A. Country] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]These Are My People - Big Band Country [00:10.84]Well we grew up down by the railroad tracks [00:13.29]Shooting b b's at old beer cans [00:15.85]Choking on the smoke from a lucky strike [00:18.29]Somebody lifted off of his old man [00:21.22]We were football flunkies [00:22.94]Southern rock junkies [00:24.18]Cranking up the stereo [00:26.53]Singing loud and proud to gimme three steps [00:29.19]Simple Man and Curtis Lowe [00:31.14]We were good you know [00:32.31] [00:37.34]Got some discount knowledge at the junior college [00:39.85]Where we majored in beer and girls [00:42.36]It was all real funny 'til we ran out of money [00:45.23]And they threw us out into the world [00:47.65]Yeah the kids that thought they'd run this town [00:50.44]Ain't running much of anything [00:53.20]Just loving and laughing [00:54.52]And busting our asses [00:55.89]And we call it all living the dream [00:57.85] [00:58.48]These are my people [01:00.48]This is where I come from [01:03.05] [01:04.22]We're giving this life everything [01:05.84]We've got and then some [01:08.59]It ain't always pretty [01:11.07]But it's real [01:13.70] [01:14.49]It's the way we were made [01:15.87]Wouldn't have it any other way [01:17.75] [01:18.43]These are my people [01:20.07] [01:23.96]Well we take it all week on the chin with a grin [01:26.56]Till we make it to a Friday night [01:29.15]And it's church league softball holler 'bout a bad call [01:32.18]Preacher breaking up the fight [01:34.54]Then later on at the green light tavern [01:37.30]Well everybody's gathering as friends [01:39.83]And the beer is pouring till Monday morning [01:42.54]Where we start all over again [01:45.21]These are my people [01:46.74] [01:47.31]This is where I come from [01:49.69] [01:50.91]We're giving this life everything [01:52.28]We've got and then some [01:55.35]It ain't always pretty [01:57.34] [01:57.89]But it's real [02:00.41] [02:01.45]It's the way we were made [02:02.63]Wouldn't have it any other way [02:04.98]These are my people [02:06.75] [02:07.73]We fall down and we get up [02:11.69] [02:12.72]We walk proud and we talk tough [02:17.16] [02:18.09]We got heart and we got nerve [02:22.19] [02:24.27]Even if we are a bit disturbed [02:27.46] [02:37.02]These are my people [02:39.29]This is where I come from [02:41.70] [02:42.63]We're giving this life everything [02:44.48]We've got and then some [02:47.37]It ain't always pretty [02:49.38] [02:49.95]But it's real [02:52.21] [02:53.38]It's the way we were made [02:54.53]Wouldn't have it any other way oh no [02:57.28] [02:58.17]These are my people yeah