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MI LA
When I saw the ambulance screaming down Main Street
MI SI
I didn't give it a thought
MI
But it was my Uncle Eugene
LA MI SI MI
He died on October the 2nd, 1981
MI
And my Uncle Wilbur
LA
They all called him Skinner
MI SI
And they said for his younger ways
MI
He'd get drunk in the morning
LA
And show me the rolls of fifties and hundreds
MI SI MI
He kept in the glove box of his old grey Impala
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Chorus: And we're all gonna be here forever
SI
So Mama don't you make such a stir
MI
Put down that camera
LA
And come on and join up
MI SI MI
The last of the family reserve
MI LA
Now my second cousin his name was Calloway
MI SI
He died when he'd barely turned two
MI LA
And it was peanut butter and jelly what did it
MI SI MI
The help she didn't know what to do
SI MI
She just stood there and she watched him turn blue
Chorus
MI LA
And my friend Brian Temple he thought he could make it
MI SI
So from the third story he jumped
MI
And he missed the swimming pool
LA
But only by inches
MI SI MI
And everyone said he was drunk
Chorus
MI LA
And there was great Uncle Julius and there was Aunt Annie Miller
MI SI
And Mary and Grandaddy Paul
MI LA
And there was Hannah and Ella and Alvin and Attic
MI SI MI
And he owned his own funeral home
MI LA
And there are more I remember and more I could mention
MI SI
Than words I could write in this song
MI LA
But I feel them watching and I see them laughing
MI SI MI
And I, I hear them singing along
Chorus
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