Gotta Serve Somebody

Thank you, Mr. D

You may be an ambassador to England or France

You may like to gamble, you might like to dance

You may be the heavyweight champion of the world

You might be a socialite with a long string of pearls

But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed

You're gonna have to serve somebody

It may be the Devil or it may be the Lord

But we all got to serve somebody (Serve somebody)

You may be a rock and roll addict, prancin' on the stage

Might have drugs at your command, women in a cage

You may be a businessman or some high degree of thief

They may call you doctor, they may call you chief

But you're gonna have to serve somebody (Serve somebody)

You're gonna have to serve somebody

Well, it may be the Devil or it may be the Lord

But we all got to serve somebody (Serve somebody)

You might be a state trooper, you might be a young turk

You may be on TV or the head of some big network

You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame

You may be livin' in another country under another name

But you're gonna have to serve somebody (Serve somebody), oh

You're gonna have to serve somebody, oh

Oh, it may be the Devil or it may be the Lord

But we all got to serve somebody (We got to serve somebody)

You may be a preacher with some spiritual pride

Or you may be a city councilman takin' bribes on the side (Ooh, ooh)

You may be workin' in a sweat shop, maybe you could cut some hair (Ooh, ooh)

You might be somebody's mistress, you might be somebody's heir

But you're gonna have to serve, oh yes indeed

You're gonna have to serve somebody (You got to serve somebody)

Well, it may be the Devil or it may be the Lord

But we all got to serve (We got to serve somebody)

Listen, you might like to wear cotton and you might like to wear silk

You might like a drink of whiskey, you might like to drink some milk (Ooh, ooh)

You might like to eat caviar, you might like to have some bread (Ooh, ooh)

Or you might be sleepin' on a cold dirt floor or in a king size bed (Hey)

You might be headin' North, you might be headin' South

You might be layin' up in bed with a gun up to your mouth

You might be goin' nowhere or you might've been there before

Maybe all of a sudden, you don't know yourself no more

But you gonna have to serve (You got to serve somebody)

Baby, got to serve somebody (You got to serve someone)

It might be the Devil or it might be the Lord

But we all got to serve somebody (We got to serve somebody)

I said we all got to serve somebody (We got to serve somebody)

You and me got to serve somebody (We got to serve somebody)

Yeah, we got to serve somebody (We got to serve somebody)

Don't you know you got to serve somebody?

(We got to serve somebody)

Oh, we all got to serve somebody (We got to serve somebody)

We all got to serve somebody (We got to serve somebody)

I'm tellin' you (We got to serve someone)

You and me got to serve (We got to serve somebody)

Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody got to serve somebody...