Lyle Lovett – Family Reserve (Guitar)

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When I saw the ambulance screaming down Main Street

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I didn't give it a thought

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But it was my Uncle Eugene; he died on October

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the Second, Nine-teen Eighty-one

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And my Uncle Wilbur, they all called him Skinner

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And they said for his younger ways

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He'd get drunk in the morning

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And show me the rolls of fifties and hundreds

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He kept in the glove box of his old grey Impala

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And we're all gonna be here forever

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So Mama don't you make such a stir

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Now, put down that camera

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And come on and join up

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The last of the family reserve

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Now my second cousin his name was Calloway

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He died when he'd barely turned two

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And it was peanut butter and jelly that did it

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The help she didn't know what to do

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She just stood there and she watched him turn blue

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And we're all gonna be here forever

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So Mama don't you make such a stir

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Just put down that camera

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And come on and join up

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The last of the family reserve

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And my friend Brian Temple he thought he could make it

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So from the third story he jumped

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And he missed the swimming pool, only by inches

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And everyone said he was drunk

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And there was great Uncle Julius and there was Aunt Annie Miller

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And Mary and Grandaddy Paul

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And there was Hannah and Ella and Alvin and Alec

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And he owned his own funeral home

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And there are more I remember and more I could mention

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Than words I could write in a song

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But I feel them watching and I see them laughing

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And I, I hear them singing along

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We're all gonna be here forever

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So Mama don't you make such a stir

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Just put down that camera

    A
And come on and join up

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The last of the family reserve