Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (with The Wailers)
Preacher told me last Sunday mornin’ Son, you better start livin’ 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 standin’ 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
I 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 comin’ but there ain’t no hurry I’m havin’ 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 Nobody want to go now