The 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 want to hear Him call your name when you're standing at the pearly gates?"
I told the preacher "Yes, I do, but I hope he don't call today" 
I ain't ready

Everybody wants to go to Heaven
Have a mansion high above the clouds
Everybody wanna go to Heaven, but nobody wanna 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 wanna go to Heaven but nobody wanna go now

Some day I wanna see those streets of gold, get 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 wants to go to Heaven
Hallalujeh! Let me hear you shout
Everybody wanna go to Heaven but nobody wanna go now

I think I can speak for the crowd
Nobody wanna go now, yeah