song:  family reserve
by:  lyle lovett


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When I saw the ambulance screaming down Main Street
E                  B
I didn't give it a thought
    E
But it was my Uncle Eugene
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He died on October the 2nd, 1981

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

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

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


 	 Chorus

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


 	 Chorus

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

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


 	 Chorus