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


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


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


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


INSTRUMENTAL: C   F  C    F  C    F  G  C ~ Am  F    G


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


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


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

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