Everybody's Gotta Pay Some Dues

If ever I have a son in life, I'll call him in one day

And sit him down upon my knee and here is what I'll say

You might lose your lover, people do sometime

Oh, but it won't make sense for you to sit around cryin'

Son, don't you know that when you fall in love

Sometimes, you're gonna have the blues

Well it may take years, but you're gonna shed some tears

'Cause everybody's got to pay some dues, now, now

Everybody's got to pay some dues

You might have money, yeah, and a big fine car

It don't matter what you look like, no, no it don't matter who you are

Son, don't you know you can't win all the time

Sometimes you're gonna have to lose

Just as long as you live, you got to take as well as give

'Cause everybody's got to pay some dues, now, now

Everybody's got to pay some dues

Whoa, whoa, whoa

(Whoa, whoa, whoa)

Yeah, yeah, yeah

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)

Hey, hey, hey-hey-hey

(Hey, hey, hey-hey-hey)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

Well now, everybody's got to pay some dues, yeah don't you know it now

Everybody's got to pay some dues

Make no mistake now, son, about the things I told you

I don't want you to think, yeah, yeah, that I'm tryin' to scold you

Son, because I know you got to fall in love sometime

Be careful who you choose

'Cause it's for sure, my son, before your life is done

You'll find that everybody's got to pay some dues, yeah don't you know it now

Everybody's got to pay some dues

(Dues, got to pay some dues, got to pay some dues)

I've got to pay, he's got to pay

(Got to pay some dues, got to pay some dues)

You've got to pay and she's got to pay

(Got to pay some dues, got to pay some dues)

No matter what you do, I say

(Got to pay some dues, got to pay some dues)

There is gonna come a day

(Got to pay some dues, got to pay some dues)

When you gonna have to pay

(Got to pay some dues, got to pay some dues)

Can't nobody get away from dues

(Got to pay some dues, got to pay some dues)

Yeah, yeah, yeah

(Got to pay some dues, got to pay some dues)

Don't you know you got to pay

(Got to pay some dues, got to pay some dues)

Hoo-hoo-hoo, don't you know you got to pay