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by Lyle Lovett



Check out this cool Lyle Lovett tune...can anybody help me out with the
words in the last verse, some of those names are a bit hard to catch

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 2nd, 1981


And my Uncle Wilbur

They all called him Skinner
                             
And 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 grey Impala

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

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


	Chorus

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


	Chorus

                                              
And there was great Uncle Julius and there was Aunt Annie Miller
                      
And Mary and Grandaddy Paul
                                 
And there was Hannah and Ella and Alvin and Attic
                           
And he owned his own funeral home

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


	Chorus


There you go...Keep an eye out, more Lovett tunes to come

Shaun