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Family Grave Lyrics by Jake Thackray

Jake in a Box disk 3

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I’ve got uncles and aunties and cousins and nephews and sisters-in-law
Our family swarms with them, it teems, they are thicker than flies
Sisters and brothers and cousins and daughters and mothers galore
The only time when all of us meet is when one of us dies
At the grave, at the grave, at the family, family grave
Whenever you go there’s always more arrive
At the grave, at the grave, at the family, family grave
For every dead one there are dozens of us alive, live, live
Dead but there are dozens of us alive
Take a family christening, well nobody goes to those
And a family wedding more often than not’s an all ticket affair
But a funeral’s free for all you can go in the same old clothes
No need to buy him a present so all of the family’s there
You sit in the chapel and whisper and meditate over the stiff
You never speak ill of him, especially if you were close
But what a good family man, and a wonderful friend, even if
The defunct was a pain in the arse and he died of a dose
At the grave, at the grave, at the family, family grave
Whenever you go there’s always more arrive
At the grave, at the grave, at the family, family grave
For every dead one there are dozens of us alive, live, live
Dead but there are dozens of us alive
There are those of course who just stand aghast and just gawp
They cannot manage to cry, and there’s others who cannot refrain
Willy-nilly they bellow and howl at the drop of a corpse
In a couple of weeks they’ve forgotten the poor bastard’s name
Then there are those of course who turn up and can then hardly wait
For the coffin to drop and the vicar to stop the and the sobbing subside
And then they are barely a blur as they sprint for the cemetery gates
To go get their hands on the money, the food, or the widow’s backside
By the grave, by the grave, by the family, family grave
Whenever you go there’s always more arrive
At the grave, at the grave, at the family, family grave
For every dead one there are dozens of us alive, live, live
Dead but there are dozens of us alive
There are one or two dos turn out disappointingly in the extreme
Where the booze is rough and the grub is duff and no flowers at all
And the mother embarrasses you with a sudden hysterical scream
Where the coffin you came to see off is pathetically small
We do the round of the family faces and pay our respects
We’ll have to be going, how nice, how sad, and thanking you
We are studying form and weighing up who it is going to be next
To go under the slab, whose turn to pay for the very next do
By the grave, by the grave, by the family, family grave
Whenever you go there’s always more arrive
At the grave, at the grave, at the family, family grave
For every dead one there are dozens of us alive, live, live
Dead but there are dozens of us alive
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Jake Thackray

Jake Thackray

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