It Pays Big Money Lyrics - Chesnutt Mark

My oldest brother Tommy was a lineman rest his soul 

His job was hanging hot wires on them power company poles 

I said with all of that high voltage don't it scare you half to death? 

He said it makes me kinda nervous but I just can't help myself 'cause 

It pays big money and boy I'm into that 

It pays big money if you're willin' to take a chance 

I'll tell you sonny you ought to see my bank account 

It paid big money but he sure can't spend it now 

My dear departed cousin used to put in forty hours 

Changing all them light bulbs on them television towers 

Every morning bright and early he'd climb up in the sky 

And I didn't understand it so one day I asked him why, he said 

It pays big money and boy I'm into that 

It pays big money if you're willin' to take a chance 

I'll tell you sonny you ought to see my bank account 

It paid big money but he sure can't spend it now 

My late Uncle Charlie was demolition man 

And he traveled all over the country blasting holes in this great land 

And he carried a case of dynamite everywhere he went 

And he'd smoke them big long cigar's 'til it got the best of him, but 

It pays big money and boy I'm into that 

It pays big money if you're willin' to take a chance 

I'll tell you sonny you ought to see my bank account 

It paid big money but he sure can't spend it now 

Now the moral of this story 

Is don't go getting yourself killed 

And be kind to your rich relatives 

And they might just leave you in their will 

And that pays big money having foolish kin 

It pays big money, I guess I owe it all to them 

I'll tell you sonny you ought to see my bank account 

It pays big money think I'll go spend some of it now