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From: snd0@gov.nt.ca (Shaun Dean)

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

E (022100@1)                      AWhen (x02220@1)I saw the ambulance screaming down Main Street
E (022100@1)                BI (x2444x@1)didn't give it a thought
    EBut (022100@1)it was my Uncle Eugene
   A (x02220@1)                 E (022100@1)  B (x2444x@1)EHe (022100@1)died on October the 2nd, 1981

EAnd (022100@1)my Uncle Wilbur
AThey (x02220@1)all called him Skinner
E (022100@1)                           BAnd (x2444x@1)they said for his younger ways
         EHe'd (022100@1)get drunk in the morning
                AAnd (x02220@1)show me the rolls of fifties and hundreds
   E (022100@1)                          B (x2444x@1)      EHe (022100@1)kept in the glove box of his old grey Impala

                 C#min     B (x2444x@1)          EChorus: (022100@1)And we're all gonna be here forever
                                      B (x2444x@1)So Mama don't you make such astir (x02210@1)        E (022100@1)Put down that camera
         A (x02220@1)And come on and join up
            E (022100@1)         B (x2444x@1)    E (022100@1)The last of the family reserve

E (022100@1)                  ANow (x02220@1)my second cousin his name was Calloway
   E (022100@1)                          BHe (x2444x@1)died when he'd barely turned two
            E (022100@1)              AAnd (x02220@1)it was peanut butter and jelly what did it
    E (022100@1)             B (x2444x@1)          EThe (022100@1)help she didn't know what to do
                              B (x2444x@1)             EShe (022100@1)just stood there and she watched him turn blue


	Chorus

E (022100@1)                         AAnd (x02220@1)my friend Brian Temple he thought he could make it
   E (022100@1)                    BSo (x2444x@1)from the third story he jumped
    EAnd (022100@1)he missed the swimming pool
    ABut (x02220@1)only by inches
    E (022100@1)      B (x2444x@1)         EAnd (022100@1)everyone said he was drunk


	Chorus

E (022100@1)                                            AAnd (x02220@1)there was great Uncle Julius and there was Aunt Annie Miller
    E (022100@1)                BAnd (x2444x@1)Mary and Grandaddy Paul
              E (022100@1)                 AAnd (x02220@1)there was Hannah and Ella and Alvin and Attic
    E (022100@1)          B (x2444x@1)         EAnd (022100@1)he owned his own funeral home

E (022100@1)                              AAnd (x02220@1)there are more I remember and more I could mention
     E (022100@1)                         BThan (x2444x@1)words I could write in this song
      E (022100@1)                    ABut (x02220@1)I feel them watching and I see them laughing
    E (022100@1)            B (x2444x@1)      EAnd (022100@1)I, I hear them singing along


	Chorus


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

Shaun

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