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