The closing of Benny's has elicited a lot of emotion, but perhaps none as soulful as those of singer Mary Bee and her mother, Mary Morra, who wrote a song, “It’s The First Christmas Without Benny’s!”

In a video with the song, Mary Bee strums her guitar in a store parking lot with a Benny's sign, telephone poles and passing cars as her backdrop. The video cuts to images of storefronts and store aisles, people smiling in Benny's shirts and frowning in front of a store, apparently saddened by its demise after 93 years.

"Benny's, Benny's. You were our favorite store," Bee sings.

"We were young and filled with wonder, singing carols beneath our Christmas tree," she sings. "On Christmas morning, we'd fly down the stairs to see our new bike, Benny's racing stripe."

In a Facebook post, Bee notes that she and her mother wrote the song because they felt "felt like we all needed a bit of closure, and a look back at the fun that was a trip to Benny's."

Before the last of the Benny's stores closed on Dec. 11, the chain had 31 stores in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. For many customers, it was the store where they could find just about anything, and, as Bee sings, the video shows clips of Benny's staples such as bicycles, fishing rods, paint, tires and cans of WD-40.

"Somehow it holds everything and anything your heart desires," Bee sings. "While you're at it, change your tires."

Without Benny's, she sings, finding a Christmas gift for her stepfather this year will be even more difficult than usual, because she won't be able to walk the aisles of Benny's, filled with the things that he liked.

"It's the first Christmas without Benny's, our favorite store," she sings.