Everybody wants to go to heaven
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1. Preacher told me last
Sunday mornin',
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son,
you better start livin' right,
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You need to quit the women and
whiskey
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and carryin' on all night.
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Don`t
you wanna hear him call your name,
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when
you're standin' at the Pearly Gates ?
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I told the preacher, "Yes,
I do!"
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but I
hope they don't call today. I ain't ready !
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G
Everybody wants to go to
heaven,
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have
a mansion high above the clouds.
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everybody
wanna go to heaven, but nobody wanna
go now.
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2. Said the preacher, maybe you
didn't see me
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throw
an extra twenty in the plate,
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there's
one for everything I did last night
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and
one to get me through today.
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Here's a ten to help you
remember,
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A
next
time you got the good Lord's ear :
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Say I'm comin'
but there ain't no hurry
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I'm havin'
fun down here. Don't you know that ...
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Everybody wants to go to
heaven,
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get
their wings and fly around,
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everybody
wanna go to heaven, but nobody wanna
go now.
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+ Someday I want to see those
streets of gold in my halo,
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but I
wouldn't mind waitin' at least a hundred years or
s........o ....
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Everybody wanna
go to heaven,
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B7
it
beats the other place, there ain't no doubt,
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everybody
wanna go to heaven, but nobody wanna
go now.
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Everybody wanna
go to heaven,
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Hallelujah,
let me hear you shout,
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everybody
wanna go to heaven, but nobody wanna
go now.
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+ Think I'd speak for the crowd,
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nobody
wanna go now, yeah.
(orig. = capo 2nd) (Kenny
Chesney)