Preacher told me last Sunday morning
"Son, you better start living right
You need to quit the whiskey and the women
And carrying on all night
So don't you wanna hear Him call your name
When you're standing at the pearly gates?"
I told the preacher, "Man, yes I do"
But I hope they don't call today
I ain't ready

Everybody wanna go to heaven
Have a mansion high above the clouds
Everybody wanna go to heaven
Nobody wanna 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 coming but there ain't no hurry
I'm having fun down here"
Don't you know that

Everybody wanna go to heaven
Get their wings and fly around
Everybody wanna go to heaven
But nobody wanna go now

Someday I wanna 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 can speak for the crowd
Nobody wanna go now