Uncle Lloyd Lyrics - Steel Woods

He was not my father's brother 

But he wished that he could be 

Told us kids to call him Uncle 

And we would be his family 

He had a wife and kids in Fresno 

The youngest one was twenty-four 

Dad had brought him into our house 

But they didn't want him anymore 

He helped us work the family business 

Building fences in the sun 

And worked just like a man of twenty 

Till the working day was done 

He and Dad would spend their evening 

Sitting in lawn chairs in the yard 

Where they'd drink a toast to Seagram's 

Seagram's never went down hard 

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Won't you wake up, Uncle Lloyd 

Got a lot of work today 

We'll get Don to make the coffee 

Load that truck and be on your way 

Friday night you can drive to Vegas 

Maybe this time you will win 

Buy a trailer by the river 

And you won't have to work again 

He was sleeping in the workroom 

With a mattress on the floor 

When one night I heard him crying 

As I passed outside his door 

He cried, "Rita, girl, I love you 

Rita, darling, please don't go 

I've tried hard to make you happy 

I've done everything I know" 

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Then I heard the bottle open 

The tipping up and putting down 

Heard the rustling of the covers 

And then he did not make a sound 

I thought of thirty years of Rita 

Standing sternly by his side 

All the years of hanging in there 

And all the emptiness inside 

And I thought of how their children 

Have children of their own 

And how a man at fifty-seven 

Winds up living so alone 

Won't you wake up, Uncle Lloyd 

Got a lot of work today 

We'll get Don to make the coffee 

Load that truck and be on your way 

Friday night you can drive to Vegas 

Maybe this time you will win 

Buy a trailer by the river 

And you won't have to work again 

Never work again.