Preacher told me last Sunday mornin'
Son, you better start livin' right
You need to quit the women and whiskey
And carryin' 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 wants to go to heaven
But nobody wants 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 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 wants to go to heaven
But nobody wants 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 wants go to heaven
It beats the other place there ain't no doubt
Everybody wants go to heaven
But nobody wanna go now
Everybody wants go to heaven
Hallelujah, let me hear you shout
Everybody wants go to heaven
But nobody wants go now
I think I speak for the crowd
Nobody wanna go now, yeah
Everybody wants to go to heaven
Get their wings and fly around
Everybody wants to go to heaven
But nobody wants to go now
Everybody wants to go to heaven
Get their wings and fly around
Everybody wants to go to heaven
But nobody wants to go now