Like Family

My uncle Bobby was a shade tree mechanic
If it had wheels, he could make 'em roll
I used to hand him wrenches
When I was young and he was strong
And it sure don't seem like that long ago

I get a call out of the blue
Take off work, pack up my suit
Jump on a plain back to Tennessee
Nothing else on this earth
Would make you put the first things first
Stop you on a dime, and make you realize
What life really means
Like family

I ain't seen my cousin, in a month of Sundays
But we were like brothers growing up
He was a real Casanova
Had an eye for the ladies that never closed
And he swore he'd never fall in love

I get a call out of the blue
Take off work, pack up my suit
I need the best man back in Tennessee
Nothing else on this earth
Would make you put first things first
Stop you on a dime, and make you realize
What life really means
Like family

If you've ever been a witness
To grandma's little house at Christmas
With all those kids in sleeping bags on that old oak floor
You might not believe there'd be room for one more

I get a call out of the blue
Make it just in time to that delivery room
When that doctor handed my baby girl to me
No, nothing else on this earth
Would make you put first things first
Stop you on a dime, and make you realize
What life really means
Like family

Oh, like family