New Year's Day - Slaid Cleaves

You might think there’s nothing left but ashes

In a box on a table at Crosby’s Bar

But there’s more than meets the eye

You didn’t leave us when you died

Your spirit will live on in what we do and who we are

Aunt Betty’s gonna tell us stories 'bout the family

Daughter Susan is gonna sing your favorite song

Cousin Perry will spend the day

Tellin' tales of the blue and gray

And the Cajun will keep pickin' all night long

We’ll be putting down the brisket and tequila

Down in Kerrville with the Seekers of the Shade

'Cause a piece of you lives on

Not only in this song

But in all the lives you touched and every friendship that you made

We’re gonna go up to Maine and eat some clams and lobsters

Bite the worm down in sunny Cancun bay

We’ll be home by Christmas Eve

Tellin' tales you won’t believe

And we’ll swim in Barton Springs on New Year’s Day

Well Greg’s gonna walk the aisles up at Carlisle

Bringing smiles just like you used to do

Uncle Dave’s got a whiskey toast

I’ll be driving coast to coast

And your smilin' face will live on in the heart of widow Sue

We’re gonna jump across the mighty Mississippi

Way up north where it’s just a little stream

Brother Bill’s gonna keep an eye

On the kin you left behind

For you taught us how to live and you showed us how to dream

We’re gonna go up to Maine and eat some clams and lobsters…

Yeah, we’re gonna go up to Maine and suck on the heads of lobsters

Like a Cajun gone home to Frenchman Bay

We’ll be home by Christmas Eve

Tellin' tales you won’t believe

And we’ll swim in Barton Springs on New Year’s Day