Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven - Alison Krauss, The Cox Family

Well everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die

Well Lord, I want to go to heaven but I don’t want to die

So I long for the day when I’ll have new birth

Still I love livin' here on Earth

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die

Well, 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, oh Lord, please let me live, death is close I know

God smiled down on Hezekiah and gave him fifteen years to go

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die

Well Lord, I wants to go to heaven but I don’t want to die

So I long for the day when I’ll have new birth

Still I love livin' here on Earth

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die

Jesus lived here on this Earth, he knew his father’s plan

He knew that he must give his life to save the souls of men

When Judas had betrayed him, the Father heard him cry

He was brave until his death but he didn’t want to die

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die

Well Lord, I want to go to heaven but I don’t want to die

So I long for the day when I’ll have new birth

Still I love livin' here on Earth

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die

Well Lord, I want to go to heaven but I don’t want to die

So I long for the day when I’ll have new birth

Still I love livin' here on Earth

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die

I said, everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die