New Years Day

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Well, you might think there's 
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nothing left but ashes
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In a box on a table at Crosby's Bar
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But there's more than meets the 
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eye, you didn't leave us when you 
died
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Your spirit will live on in what we
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 do and who we are


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Aunt Betty's gonna tell us stories
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 'bout the family
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Daughter Susan is gonna sing your 
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favourite song
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Cousin Perry will spend the day, 
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telling tales of the blue and grey
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And the Cajun will keep picking all
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 night long


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We'll be putting down the brisket 
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and tequila
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Down in Kerrville with the Seekers 
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of the Shade
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'Cause a piece of you lives on, 
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not only in this song
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But in all the lives you touched 
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and every friendship that you made


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CHORUS:
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We're gonna go up to Maine and eat
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 some clams and lobsters
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Bite the worm down in sunny Cancun 
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bay
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We'll be home by Christmas Eve, 
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telling tales you won't believe
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And we'll swim in Barton Springs 
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on New Year's Day


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Well, Greg's gonna walk the aisles
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 up at Carlisle
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Bringing smiles just like you used 
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to do
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Uncle Dave's got a whiskey toast, 
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I'll be driving from coast to coast
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And your smiling face will live on 
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in the heart of widow Sue


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Oh, we're gonna jump across the 
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mighty Mississippi
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Way up north where it's just a 
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little stream
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Brother Bill's gonna keep an eye 
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on the kin you left behind
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For you taught us how to live and 
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you showed us how to dream


CHORUS:
            F                  G  
We're gonna go up to Maine and eat
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 some clams and lobsters
F                     G           
Bite the worm down in sunny Cancun 
 C
bay
         F                 G  
We'll be home by Christmas Eve, 
          C         ~       Am
telling tales you won't believe
          F              G        
And we'll swim in Barton Springs 
             C
on New Year's Day


CHORUS:
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Yeah, we're gonna go up to Maine 
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and suck on the heads of lobsters
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Like a Cajun gone home to 
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Frenchman Bay
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We'll be home by Christmas Eve, 
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telling tales you won't believe
          F              G        
And we'll swim in Barton Springs 
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on New Year's Day