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Thread #64742   Message #1063694
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Dec-03 - 10:44 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
Subject: Lyr Add: EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN (gospel)
Here are the gospel song lyrics copied from http://www.luma-electronic.cz/lp/l/Lynn/loretta_hymns.htm with some corrections by me.

EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN
(Loretta Lynn)
« © '65 Sure-Fire Music »

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

Once upon a time, there lived a man and his name was Hezekiah.
He walked with God both day and night but he didn't want to die.
He cried, "O Lord, please let me live. Death is close, I know."
God smiled down on Hezekiah and gave him fifteen years to go.

CHORUS: Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Lord, I want to go to heaven but I don't want to die.
Though I long for the day when I'll have new birth,
Still I love a-livin' here on earth.
Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

When Jesus lived here on this earth, He knew His Father's plan.
He knew that He must give His life to save the soul of man.
When Judas had betrayed him, the Father heard him cry.
He was brave until His death but He didn't want to die. CHORUS

[Sung by Loretta Lynn on "Hymns," 1965, and other albums. Also recorded by Patsy Cline, and by Alison Krauss & The Cox Family on "I Know Who Holds Tomorrow," 1994.]