The Prime Cutts

Lyrics

<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Next thing I know, I'm standing at Heaven's door !</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Pearly Gates and all like they said it would be in what seems like a lifetime before.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Sure enough there's a guy checking up on every soul,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Looking up histories on a tally sheet &ndash; a Lifetime Achievement honor roll.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I'm getting' nervous that my name's not there&nbsp;&nbsp; when just a little while ago I didn't care.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">St. Peter, please!&nbsp; I know I didn't pray.&nbsp; Won't you just let me in anyway?</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I confess, I doubted the scriptures; I didn't light a candle; didn't bathe in the river.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">But I smiled at my neighbor; I gave money to the poor;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I played by all the rules&nbsp; --&nbsp; I'm pretty sure.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">St. Peter, please!&nbsp; Come on and let me in!</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Since I'd believed there wasn't Heaven then I sure as hell</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Hadn't worried 'bout the "other place" with the scummy, low-life clientele.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">So I'm thinking fast trying to figure how to make my case,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">The best argument in my defense that was bound to get me in this place.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">St. Peter, please!&nbsp; I know I didn't pray.&nbsp; Won't you just let me in anyway?</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I confess: I didn't pay respect; I didn't keep kosher; didn't genuflect.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">But I tried not to gossip; I never hurt a fly.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I wouldn't try to fool ya, I'm not that kind a guy.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">St. Peter, please!&nbsp; Come on and let me in!</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't mean to tell you, Peter, how to do your job,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But I think you let a few slip past</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; who were chanting prayers and singing Hallelujahs.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lord, they sure picked up a new tune fast!</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I wasn't known for being pious, but I am begging you to put aside your bias.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">St. Peter, please!&nbsp; I know I didn't pray.&nbsp; Won't you just let me in anyway?</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Didn't bow to Mecca five times a day; didn't know the Noble Eightfold Way.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">But I didn't cheat the tax man; didn't cheat on my wife:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I was so good my whole life!</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">St. Peter, please!&nbsp; Come on and let me in!</span></span></p>