Uncle Ray Lyrics - Cherry Poppin Daddies

Uncle Ray is gone, a relative they couldn't find 

Finally free of his insanity, they covered him with lime 

In a ditch outside the old junkyard on 17 

Well, that crazy drunk, I swear, he was a gentleman to me 

So take him far, far away, take him far, far away 

Out past all discussions, far from what they said 

Take him far, far away, take him far, far away 

'Cuz we're sort of related, here lies Uncle Ray 

Dry rough skin, his hand, a working man, like bark from trees 

He'd come to the back door of my family's house 

For coffee and something to eat 

Pushed a shopping cart all filled with junk and empty cans 

He came home from the war to find his wife 

Now loved another man 

So take him far, far away, take him far, far away 

Out past all discussions, far from what they said 

Take him far, far away, take him far, far away 

'Cuz we're sort of related, here lies Uncle Ray 

In this photograph, we're hand in hand, in deep white snow 

Ray was sixty five, and nearly blind, and I was four, or so 

All the neighbors used to laugh and throw snowballs at him 

Now I live alone and when it snows, I try not to think of them 

So take him far, far away, take him far, far away 

Out past all discussions, far from what they said 

Take him far, far away, take him far, far away 

'Cuz we're sort of related, 'cuz we're sort of related 

'Cuz we're sort of related, here lies Uncle Ray 

Here lies Uncle Ray