You Gotta Pay The Band Lyrics - You Gotta Pay The Band - Abbey Lincoln

Oh, it really isn't easy 

Just to let the good times roll 

Everything is measured at a cost 

Everybody living 

Pays their share of dues 

And sometimes what you think you got 

You lost 

So ring a ding-ding 

Do your thing 

But remember, darling 

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When you give a dance 

You gotta pay the band 

The band that played your song the whole night through 

When you give a dance 

It's better if you try 

To pay the piper what the piper's due 

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The moves were free and easy 

As we danced across the floor 

The spins and the exchanges 

Being what the music's for 

But when the party's over 

And the revelry is done 

You gotta pay the band that played your song