Do Ya Wanna Go To Heaven - 1985 Original Broadway Cast

Look-a here Huck, do you want to go to Heaven?
Do you want to go to Heaven? Well I'll tell you right now
You better learn to read and you better learn your writin'
Or you'll never get to Heaven 'cause you won't know how

You may think that the whole thing is silly
But it isn't silly, really

And I'll tell you right now
If you don't learn to read then you can't read your Bible

And you'll never get to Heaven 'cause you won't know how

It got pretty rough, livin' with the Widder and Miss Watson; they was so regular and decent in all their ways. And Judge Thatcher thought he had the right to tell me what sort of person I should be too!

Look-a here, Huck, now you better think it over
Do you wanna be a loafer like your Pappy is now?
You better learn to read and you better learn your writin'
Or you'll never get to Heaven 'cause you won't know how

And Tom Sawyer wasn't above puttin' in his two cents worth either, sayin' I should be more like the fellers in those adventure books he was always a-readin'!

Hey, hey, ain't the situation
Concernin' education
Aggrivatin' and how?
Hey, hey

Do ya wanna get to Heaven?

Well ya better get your lessons
Or ya won't know how

It seemed like everybody in the whole blame town of St. Petersburg was tryin' to tell me who I should be!

Look-a here Huck, do ya wanna be a feller
Like a feller really ought to be? I'll tell ya right now
Ya better learn to read and ya better learn your writin'
Or you'll never get to Heaven 'cause ya won't know how

Hey, hey, ain't the situation
Concernin' education
Aggrivatin' and how?
Hey, hey, do ya wanna get to Heaven
Well ya better get your lessons
Or ya won't know how

Look-a here Huck, look-a here Huck, look-a here
Look-a here Huck, look-a here (Read your Bible, Huck)
Look-a here Huck, look-a here Huck, look-a here
Look-a here Huck, look-a here

Do you wanna come to dinner?
Do you wanna be a winner? (Do your readin', Huck)
Do you wanna think it over?
Do you wanna be a loafer? (Do your writin', Huck)
Do you wanna come to dinner?
Do you wanna be a winner? (Do ya wanna)
Do you wanna think it over? (Be a fella)
Do you wanna be a loafer? (Like ya oughta be?)

(Do ya wanna go to Heaven?)
You may think that the whole thing is silly
But it isn't silly really and I'll tell ya right now
If you don't learn to read then you can't read your Bible
And you'll never get to Heaven 'cause you won't know how
'Cause you won't know how
'Cause you won't know how

Hey, hey, ain't the situation
Concernin' education
Aggrivatin' and how?
Hey, hey, you wanna go to Heaven?
Do ya wanna go to Heaven
If you don't go to Hell?

Do you wanna go to Heaven?
Do you wanna go to Heaven?
Well you better do your readin'
And you better read your Bible
Do ya wanna go to Heaven
If you don't go to Hell?



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Writer(s): Roger Miller
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