Family Reserve - Lyle Lovett

    When I saw the ambulance
    Screaming down Main Street
    I didn't give it a thought
    But it was my Uncle Eugene
    He died on October the second 1981

    And my Uncle Wilbert
    They all called him Skinner
    They said for his younger ways
    He'd get drunk in the morning
    And show me the rolls of fifties and hundreds
    He kept in the glove box of his old gray Impala

    And we're all gonna be here forever
    So Mama don't you make such a stir
    Now put down that camera
    And come on and join up
    The last of the family reserve

    Now my second cousin
    His name was Callaway
    He died when he'd barely turned two
    It was peanut butter and jelly that did it
    The help she didn't know what to do
    She just stood there and watched him turn blue

    And we're all gonna be here forever
    So Mama don't you make such a stir
    Just put down that camera
    And come on and join up
    The last of the family reserve

    And my friend Brian Temple
    He thought he could make it
    So from the third story he jumped
    He missed the swimming pool
    Only by inches
    And everyone said he was drunk

    Now there was great Uncle Julius
    And Aunt Annie Mueller
    And Mary and Granddaddy Paul
    And there was Hanna and Ella
    And Alvin and Alec
    He owned his own funeral hall

    And there are more I remember
    And more I could mention
    Than words I could write in a song
    But I feel them watching
    And I see them laughing
    And I hear them singing along

    We're all gonna be here forever
    So Mama don't you make such a stir
    Just put down that camera
    And come on and join up
    The last of the family reserve
     

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