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Thread #64742 Message #1063692
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Dec-03 - 10:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
Subject: Lyr Add: EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN (blues)
According to this web page, this blues song was written by Don Nix and performed by Albert King:
EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN
Everybody wants to laugh, ah, but nobody wants to cry.
I said, everybody wants to laugh, but nobody wants to cry.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Everybody wants to hear the truth, but yet everybody wants to tell a lie.
I said everybody wants to hear the truth, but still they all want to tell a lie.
Ah, everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Everybody wants to know the reason without even asking why.
Oh, everybody wants to know the reason, all without even asking why.
You know, everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
[I seem to recall the phrase "Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die" being used as a refrain in a song by Cab Calloway, but I have been unable to find it on the Internet. If I had to guess, I would say it was more like this song than the others I have found with the same title.]