James McMurtry – Memorial Day lyrics

Mama keeps tryin? To get the game on the radiodaddy? S gotta know the score
There? S a big yellow thing on a flat bed trailer
Wonder what that thing? S forwe got towels rolled up in the back seat window
Keeping us out of the sunjust a hundred more miles and we? Ll be at grandma? S
Sure is gonna be fun
Maybe she? Ll take us fishin?
Maybe she? Ll bake us a pieremember like she did that one time
Back before grandpa died

It? S Memorial Day in America
Everybody? S on the road
Let? S remember our fallen heroes
Y? All be sure and drive slow

Ninety eight degrees in the shade of the tool shed
Can? T go back in the house
They? Re all in the kitchen yellin? ? Bout something
Don? T know what it? S about
Joey? N Mary said not to worry
Said it? S just the same old figh
Thappens whenever they all get together
Everything? S really alright

It? S Memorial Day in America
This is how it? S supposed to be
Let? S remember our fallen heroesin the land of the free

Daddy? S in the big chair sippin? On a cold beer
Grandma? S cuttin? A switch
She overheard Mary cussin? Her brother
Called him a son of a bitch
She got a good green limb off a sweet gum sapling
Man that? S bound to sting

But Mary don? T cry just stands there and takes it
Doesn? T seem to feel a thing
No Mary don? T cry, you know she? S a big girl
Wonder what made her so mad
She takes those licks looking in through the den door
Staring right straight at her dad

There? S a big yellow thing on a flat bed trailer
Daddy nearly hit that bird
They? Re both in the front seat
Starin? Right straight ahead
Neither one saying a word
The sun? S going down in the rear view mirror
Gonna be driving all night
Wonder if the neighbor? S fed the canary
Wonder if the cat? S alright