Key: E major
Verse 1
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D
nothing left but ashes
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D
In a box on a table at Crosby's Bar
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F#m
Bm
You didn't leave us when you died
A
Am
A
do and who we are
Verse 2
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G
Aunt Betty's gonna tell us stories
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A
Cousin Perry will spend the day
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A
Bm
Tellin' tales of the blue and gray
pickin' all night long
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Verse 3
G
D
brisket and tequila
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A
'Cause a piece of you lives on
D
A
Bm
Not only in this song
Verse 4
A
D
eat some clams and lobsters
A
D
sunny Cancun bay
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A
We'll be home by Christmas Eve
D
Bm
Tellin' tales you won't believe
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A
D
And we'll swim in Barton Springs on New Year's Day
Interlude 1
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A
D
F#m
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Bm
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D
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D
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D
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Bm
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Verse 5
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D
aisles up at Carlisle
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D
Bringing smiles just like you used to do
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A
Uncle Dave's got a whiskey toast
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A
Bm
I'll be driving coast to coast
Verse 6
G
D
the mighty Mississippi
Way up north where it's
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D
just a little stream
G
A
Brother Bill's gonna keep an eye
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Bm
On the kin you left behind
Verse 7
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A
We're gonna go up to Maine and eat some clams and
Interlude 2
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D
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F#m
Bm
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Verse 8
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D
and suck on the heads of lobsters
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A
Like a Cajun gone home
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A
We'll be home by Christmas Eve
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F#m
Bm
Tellin' tales you won't be lieve
A
D
Springs on New Year's Day
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