Smokey Robinson and The Miracles – Everybodys Gotta Pay Some Dues (Guitar)

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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, 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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Ain't nobody get away from dues

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Yeah yeah yeah now