everybody's gotta pay some dues

if ever i have a son in life

i'll call him in one day

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 she'd 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

sometime 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

yeah yeah yeah

yeah hea hea hea hea hea

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 mistakes 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 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

i've got to pay

he's got to pay

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

no matter what you do

i say

there is gonna come a day

when you gonna have to pay

cain't nobody get away from dues

yeah yeah yeah now