Everybody wants to go to heaven    (video)

 

    D - G - A - D (2x)

 

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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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    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.

 

+  D - G - A - D

 

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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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    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,

G                                  D                       Bm                      A - B7

    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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    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)