| If ever I have a son in life, I’ll call him in one day
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| Sit him down upon my knee and here is what I’ll say
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| You might lose your lover, people do sometime
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| Oh, but it won’t make sense for you to sit around cryin'
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| Son, don’t you know that when you fall in love
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| Sometimes, you’re gonna have the blues
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| Well it may take years, but you’re gonna she’d some tears
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| 'Cause everybody’s got to pay some dues, now, now
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| Everybody’s got to pay some dues
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| You might have money, yeah, and a big fine car
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| It don’t matter what you look like, no, no it don’t matter who you are
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| Son, don’t you know you can’t win all the time
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| Sometime you’re gonna have to lose
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| Just as long as you live, you got to take as well as give
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| 'Cause everybody’s got to pay some dues, now, now
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| Everybody’s got to pay some dues
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| Whoa whoa whoa
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| (Whoa whoa whoa)
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| Yeah yeah yeah
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| (Yeah yeah yeah)
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| Yeah hea hea hea hea hea
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| (Yeah hea hea hea hea hea)
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| Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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| (Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)
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| Well now, everybody’s got to pay some dues, yeah don’t you know it now
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| Everybody’s got to pay some dues
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| Make no mistakes now son about the things I told you
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| I don’t want you to think, yeah yeah, that I’m tryin' to scold you
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| Son because I know you got to fall in love sometime
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| Be careful who you choose
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| 'Cause it’s sure my son before your life is done
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| You’ll find that everybody’s got to pay some dues, yeah don’t you know it now
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| Everybody’s got to pay some dues
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| (Dues, got to pay some dues, got to pay some dues)
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| I’ve got to pay, he’s got to pay
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| You’ve got to pay and she’s got to pay
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| No matter what you do, I say
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| There is gonna come a day
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| When you gonna have to pay
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| Cain’t nobody get away from dues
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| Yeah yeah yeah now |