Open Up Them Pearly Gates! Lyrics - Grandpa Jones

Open Up Them Pearly Gates! 

Grandpa Jones 

Listen, all you sinners! 

If you want to get to Heaven, Heaven 

Better get down on your knees and pray! 

All you gambling skinners 

Better quit saying 'Seven Eleven'! 

Get yourself prepared for the Judgment Day! 

'Cause I've done had a vision 

Seen them gates a closing, closing 

And I seen you sinners all outside 

Your better make your decision 

Pray that you'll be chosen, chosen 

It'll be too late 

When you're done laid down and died! 

Open up them pearly gates! 

Open up them pearly gates! 

Open up them pearly gates for me! 

Hallelujah, 'lujah! 

When you hear that trumpet blast 

I'll be coming home at last 

Open up them pearly gates for me! 

Well, go out to that chicken roost! 

Ask yourself an honest question 

And the Lord will know it if you lie! 

You better turn all them chickens loose 

Or you'll die from indigestion 

When you eat that stolen chicken, fried! 

Now, take that keg of gin! 

Dump it every bit right in the river 

Else you've let old Satan stay your hand! 

And if you fill it up again 

It'll eat a hole right in your liver 

And the gate won't open 

When you reach that Promised Land 

Open up them pearly gates! 

Open up them pearly gates! 

Open up them pearly gates for me! 

Hallelujah, 'lujah! 

When you hear that trumpet blast 

I'll be coming home at last 

Open up them pearly gates for me!