Preacher told me last Sunday morning Son, you better start living right You need to quit the women and whiskey And carrying on all night Don't you wanna hear him call your name When you're standing at the pearly gates I told the preacher, "Yes I do" But I hope they don't call today I ain't ready Everybody wants to go to heaven Have a mansion high above the clouds Everybody want to go to heaven But nobody want to go now Said preacher maybe you didn't see me Throw an extra twenty in the plate There's one for everything I did last night And one to get me through today Here's a ten to help you remember Next time you got the good Lord's ear Say I'm coming but there ain't no hurry I'm having fun down here Don't you know that Everybody wants to go to heaven Get their wings and fly around Everybody want to go to heaven But nobody want to go now Someday I want to see those streets of gold in my halo But I wouldn't mind waiting at least a hundred years or so Everybody wanna go to heaven It beats the other place there ain't no doubt Everybody wanna go to heaven But nobody wanna go now Everybody wanna go to heaven Hallelujah, let me hear you shout Everybody wanna go to heaven But nobody wanna go now I think I speak for the crowd