Family Reserve

<br>When I saw the ambulance<br><br>Screaming down main street<br><br>I didnt give it a thought<br><br>But it was my uncle eugene<br><br>He died on october the second 1981<br><br><br><br>And my uncle wilbert<br><br>They all called him skinner<br><br>They said for his younger ways<br><br>Hed get drunk in the morning<br><br>And show me the rolls of fifties and hundreds<br><br>He kept in the glove box of his old gray impala<br><br><br><br>And were all gonna be here forever<br><br>So mama dont you make such a stir<br><br>Now put down that camera<br><br>And come on and join up<br><br>The last of the family reserve<br><br><br><br>Now my second cousin<br><br>His name was callaway<br><br>He died when hed barely turned two<br><br>It was peanut butter and jelly that did it<br><br>The help she didnt know what to do<br><br>She just stood there and watched him turn blue<br><br><br><br>And were all gonna be here forever<br><br>So mama dont you make such a stir<br><br>Just put down that camera<br><br>And come on and join up<br><br>The last of the family reserve<br><br><br><br>And my friend brian temple<br><br>He thought he could make it<br><br>So from the third story he jumped<br><br>He missed the swimming pool<br><br>Only by inches<br><br>And everyone said he was drunk<br><br><br><br>Now there was great uncle julius<br><br>And aunt annie mueller<br><br>And mary and granddaddy paul<br><br>And there was hanna and ella<br><br>And alvin and alec<br><br>He owned his own funeral hall<br><br><br><br>And there are more I remember<br><br>And more I could mention<br><br>Than words I could write in a song<br><br>But I feel them watching<br><br>And I see them laughing<br><br>And I hear them singing along<br><br><br><br>Were all gonna be here forever<br><br>So mama dont you make such a stir<br><br>Just put down that camera<br><br>And come on and join up<br><br>The last of the family reserve