E A
When I saw the ambulance screaming down Main Street
E B
I didn't give it a thought
E A
But it was my Uncle Eugene; he died on October
E B E
the Second, Nine-teen Eighty-one
E A
And my Uncle Wilbur, they all called him Skinner
E B
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
[Chorus]
C#m B E
And we're all gonna be here forever
B
So Mama don't you make such a stir
E
Now, put down that camera
A
And come on and join up
E B E
The last of the family reserve
[Verse 2]
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 that 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]
C#m B E
And we're all gonna be here forever
B
So Mama don't you make such a stir
E
Just put down that camera
A
And come on and join up
E B E
The last of the family reserve
[Verse 3]
E A
And my friend Brian Temple he thought he could make it
E B
So from the third story he jumped
E A
And he missed the swimming pool, only by inches
E B E
And everyone said he was drunk
[Instrumental]
C#m B E E
E E B B
E E A A
E B E E
[Verse 4]
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 Alec
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 a song
E A
But I feel them watching and I see them laughing
E B E
And I, I hear them singing along
[Chorus]
C#m B E
We're all gonna be here forever
B
So Mama don't you make such a stir
E
Just put down that camera
A
And come on and join up
E B E
The last of the family reserve
