Family Reserve

Lyle Lovett

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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 
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He died on October the 2nd, 1981 
 
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And my Uncle Wilbur 
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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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Chorus: 	 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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 	 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 what 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 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 
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But 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 Attic 
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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 this 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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